Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code is a 1986 British play by
It was adapted into a 1996 television film directed by Herbert Wise, with Derek Jacobi reprising his stage role as Turing.
Characters
- Alan Turing
- Mick Ross, detective
- Christopher Morcom, Turing's childhood friend (1911–1930)
- Sara Turing, Turing's mother (1881–1976)
- Ron Miller, a young man having an affair with Turing (based on Arnold Murray)[1]
- Dillwyn Knox, manager at Bletchley Parkrecruiting Turing for government service
- Patricia "Pat" Green, a co-worker of Turing's at Bletchley (based on Joan Clarke; 1917–1996)
Performance history
Following an eight-month run at the
The national première for Italy of the play was translated and directed by Luca Giberti at the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, featuring Jurij Ferrini.[5][6]
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.[7]
The play was also staged just before the start of the Alan Turing Year celebrations, in December 2011, at the
The play was produced at The
On 5 October 2019 a new production of the play began at Salisbury Playhouse in the UK. Directed by Christian Durham the performance is given in the round. To achieve this the usual seating configuration of the Playhouse was changed and seats placed on the stage. The part of Alan Turing was played by Edward Bennett.
In other media
Television
The play was adapted for television in a 1996
References
- ^ The name Ronald Miller was used by Alan Turing himself in a fragmentary autobiographical short story dated 1954 (AMT/A/13 in the Digital Turing Archive[permanent dead link]).
- ^ Jenny Agutter website, retrieved 9 April 2012
- ^ Henry III, William A. (23 November 1987), "Ingenuousness And Genius: Breaking The Code", Time, archived from the original on 22 October 2010, retrieved 10 May 2008
- ^ Breaking the Code on John Castle Fansite
- ^ "Interview to director and cast of Italian edition". Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Festival della Scienza programme entry, archived from the original on 19 May 2007, retrieved 25 July 2012
- ^ 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.
- ^ "BREAKING THE CODE - Royal Exchange Theatre".
External links
- Breaking the Code at the Internet Broadway Database
- Performance details in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
- Breaking the Code plot summary & character descriptions from StageAgent.com
- Breaking the Code at the Alan Turing Scrapbook, archived at Perma.cc.