Hugh Whitemore’s exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes – Alan Turing.

During World War II the Germans used a machine called ‘Enigma’ – originally invented by one Arthur Scherbius in 1918 – to code their top secret communications.  The eccentric genius Alan Turing played a major role in winning the war by inventing a machine to crack the code the Enigma produced, thus enabling allied forces to foresee German manoeuvres. Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code the taboo against homosexuality. Turing, who was also the first to conceive of computers, was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and sentenced to undergo hormone treatments which left him physically and mentally debilitated. He died a suicide, forgotten and alone. This play is about who he was, what happened to him and why.

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