Behind every Great Inventor is a Mother of Invention.
Matheatre’s production of Nikola Tesla and the Mother of Invention is touring the U.S. and opened at 18th and Union Aug 20 and 21st. True to Matheatre’s educational mission to enliven stem subjects through music and drama, the play was truly enlightening about the genesis of one of the greatest inventors of all time: Serbian American Nikola Tesla.
Along the way, it explained how a genius autodidact, who had never been to school and could not read, could, by observing the natural world and the human body, understand the physics of motion, become a creative inventor, and inspire her son. This was the story of Nikola Tesla’s mother, Georgia Dukja
As the play opens, a young Nikola Tesla is being interviewed by an obstreperous U.S. immigration official. Through a series flashbacks, the audience learns about his mother’s incredible abilities, about his own internal conflicts in choosing a profession. By family tradition he was destined to become a Serbian Orthodox priest, while living in Roman Catholic Croatia under the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Nikola Tesla is most famous for inventing Alternating Current, for working initially with Thomas Edison and then with Westinghouse; however, he invented several other useful and not useful gadgets and held numerous patents.
Running about 66 minutes, the two person show uses music, humor and a simple set, to explain complex scientific processes and to tell the biographical details of this rather eccentric but highly influential scientist.
Nikola Tesla and the Mother of Invention along with Curie me Away, about Marie Curie and the discovery of radium, are all available for booking and workshops https://matheatre.com/
See DITH’s review of Curie me Away: https://www.dramainthehood.net/?s=Curie+me+away