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Sheila Burbidge. Peter Westbury. Samuel Littley. Laurence Tuerk. Iacopo Pozzana (assistant) 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 ...
Synopsis. Hugh Whitemore’s biographical play tells the story of Alan Turing, a British mathematician who played a key role in cracking the German Enigma code during World War Two and developed early theories in computer science.
breaking the code by hugh whitemore The superbly talented young actors of the Pendleton Sixth Form College School of Theatre present their highly acclaimed production of this powerful biopic, which charts the life and work of the great Alan Turing - codebreaker, mathematical genius, pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, father of the modern ...
He is supported by an impressive cast including Geraldine Alexander as his mother Sara, Natalie Dew as the fellow codebreaker who fell in love with him (the fictional Pat Green, but based on a couple of real characters), Raad Rawi as his ageing boss at Bletchley Park Dillwyn Knox and Phil Cheadle as the sympathetic but duty-bound police officer.
Mar 9, 2022 · Three different actors — Ewan Pedley, Harry Reid and Steve Corner — not only play Turing at different stages in his life, but as the various selves that he becomes for other people. Pedley, for example, is a stargazing and frustrated optimist who first shares his sexuality with school friend Christopher (Dallas Reedman).
Nov 3, 2016 · These monologues break out of scenes that shuttle backwards and forwards in Turing’s life, capturing key moments. Shaken out of chronological order, we see his intense schoolboy friendship with Christopher Morcom, his wartime years code-breaking at Bletchley Park, his arrest for gross indecency in 1952 and the affair that led to it.
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.
