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Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code

Hugh Whitemore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Alan Hodges
Play - Full Length
£8.75
ISBN:  0573016569
ISBN-13:  978057301656-1
Fee Code:  M

Description

M7 (17, 20s, 40s, 60s) F2 (20s-50s, 60s). An open space. Period 1930s to 1940s

This compassionate play is the story of Alan Turing, who broke the code in two ways: he cracked the German Enigma code during World War II (for which he was decorated by Churchill) and also shattered the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality (for which he was arrested on a charge of gross indecency). Whitemore's play, shifting back and forth in time, seeks to find a connection between the two events.

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Hugh Whitemore

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