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Breaking the Code Theatre: Haymarket Theatre,
London, 1986, then Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Washington, D.C., 1986, later Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 1987. Television:
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Breaking the Code Theatre: Haymarket Theatre,
London, 1986, then Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Washington, D.C., 1986, later Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 1987. Television:
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Plot Summary: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who
was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the
Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. He was a genius, pulled into WWII to break the cryptographic
codes used by the Nazis. They used machines that could spin wheels and
produce extremely complex codes nearly impossible to decipher. Turing conceived of a computer that could sort
through endless combinations quickly and crack the codes, even though they were changed daily.Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this
was illegal, besides being a security risk. However, he was caught in a gay affair with a male hustler and after prosecution, forced to take
hormones as a "treatment." Although he saved countless lives and ships by cracking the codes, and
invented the world's first working computer, persecution proved too much and he took his life in a
most unusual way.
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