Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code is a 1986 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 founder of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his [[homosexualite on John Castle Fansite]</ref>
The play was adapted for television in a 1996 BBC filmed production, directed by Herbert Wise, and also starring Jacobi, which won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and was nominated for two BAFTA TV awards, for best single drama and best actor, and for a GLAAD Media Award. It was broadcast in the United States by PBS on Masterpiece Theatre. A producer’s cut was released on DVD in 2012.
The national première for Italy of the play was translated and directed by Luca Giberti at the Stabile Theatre in Genoa, featuring Jurij Ferrini.[1][2]
During the Turing Centenary 2012, there were two productions of the play in Germany, at the English Theatre Frankfurt and an amateur tour through Germany and the Netherlands by the University Players Hamburg.[3]
The play was also staged just before the start of the Alan Turing Year celebrations, in December 2011, at the Old Fire Station in Oxford, by Oxford Theatre Guild.[4]
References
- ^ Interview to director and cast of Italian edition
- ^ Festival della Scienza programme entry, retrieved 2012-07-25
- ^ Breaking the Code, Frankfurt, 7 Sep - 27 Oct 2012; University Players on Tour: Breaking the Code, 14 Sep - 1 Nov 2012.
- ^ "Breaking the Code on Oxford Theatre Guild's Website." Retrieved on 26 May 2013.
External links
- Breaking the Code movie trailer
- Performance details in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
- Breaking the Code plot summary & character descriptions from StageAgent.com
- Breaking the Code at the Internet Broadway Database
- Breaking the Code at IMDb
- Breaking the Code [dead link] at the Alan Turing Scrapbook, archived at Perma.cc.