Breaking the Code
Event Information
Date and time
Tuesday 27 April 2027, 7:30pm to 10pm
Location
Woodford Community Centre, Chester Road, Woodford, Stockport, SK7 1PS
Submitted by
Woodford Players
About this event
Alan Mathison Turing 1912 to 1954, “Father of Computer Science, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker, Victim of Prejudice”, so says the memorial plaque at the foot of his statue in Fairfield Park, Manchester.
This compelling and moving play tells the story of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician and engineer, who devised the means of cracking the German Enigma code which helped win World War II by enabling allied forces to foresee German manoeuvres.
It was on Churchill’s specific instructions that Turing was given all the resources he required, and his personal behaviour (that of being a homosexual) tolerated. This “breaking of the code” by being unapologetically homosexual at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain eventually catches up with Turing.
This remarkable play by Hugh Whitemore is about who he was, what happened to him and why. Alan Turing was granted a posthumous pardon in 2013.
“Powerful and riveting drama”: New York Daily News.
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