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14 – 25s £5. Buy Tickets. Sat 11 Oct. 7:30pm. Priority Booking opens Fri 1 Nov 12 noon | Public Booking opens Tue 5 Nov 12 noon. 14 – 25s £5. Book Now. Based on the book Alan Turing Enigma By Andrew Hodges “It’s not breaking a code that matters, it’s where you go from there.”. Mastermind.
This version of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 play about code breaker and former University of Manchester professor Alan Turing focuses on the genius mathematician's private life...
About This Show. Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Alan Hodges This powerful and evocative historical drama explores the life of the man who broke too many codes: his major role in breaking the complex Enigma code in World War II and his conviction for homosexuality, the sentence for which left him mentally and physically debilitated.
Breaking the Code is a 1986 British play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science.
- Hugh Whitemore
- 1986
Oct 30, 2014 · “The Imitation Game” tells the story of Alan Turing, the gay British mathematician and World War II code breaker who was convicted in 1952 on charges of indecency.
Oct 10, 2019 · Edward Bennett in Breaking The Code. Photo: Helen Murray. We know a lot more about Alan Turing, the subject of Breaking The Code, than we did when Hugh Whitemore wrote the play in the mid 1980s. His once secret work on breaking the Enigma code during World War Two, possibly saving millions of lives, is now well publicised.
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Jan 25, 2022 · The sailors would use codes in the form of whistles to communicate the scene changes. If an actor whistled backstage, it might confuse the crew into initiating a scene change, risking injury and even possible death of a performer.