Nikola Tesla’s riveting, peculiar life provides the inspiration for Mugwumpin’s newest original performance about ambition, transcendence, and the terrible price of genius. His inventive output rivaled Thomas Edison, and his spectacular scientific demonstrations enraptured the likes of Mark Twain. Yet his life ended in poverty, with the pigeons outside his window as his only companions. Future... [read more]

Nikola Tesla’s riveting, peculiar life provides the inspiration for Mugwumpin’s newest original performance about ambition, transcendence, and the terrible price of genius. His inventive output rivaled Thomas Edison, and his spectacular scientific demonstrations enraptured the likes of Mark Twain. Yet his life ended in poverty, with the pigeons outside his window as his only companions. Future Motive Power, far from a biographical drama, will weave fragments of biography, fiction, science demonstration, and magic show into performative fever dream.

Previews Friday, January 6th and Saturday, January 7th. Opening Sunday, January 8th. The
show runs Friday – Sunday through January 29th. All shows at 8pm.

Previews: Pay-What-You-Can.
Opening Night: Sunday, January 8th, $30 with drinks and hors d’oeuvres included after the show.
January 13-January 22: tickets $15-$20 sliding scale
January 27-29: tickets are $20-$30 sliding scale.

Advance ticket purchase is available from www.mugwumpin.org or at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/206759.

Future Motive Power was created and written by the ensemble: performers Misti Boettiger, Madeline H.D. Brown, Joseph Estlack, Natalie Greene, Rami Margron, and Christopher W. White, and director Susannah Martin.
Lighting Design by Wolfgang Lancelot Wachalovsky
Costume Design is by Ashley Rogers.