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Breaking The Code
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At
Kew Bridge Steam Museum,
Brentford
Tue 10 Nov - Wed 11 Nov 2009
From 7:30pm
From 7:30pm
Alan Turing, mathematician and computer pioneer broke the code in two ways. One was by cracking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II for which he was decorated by Churchill and lauded by the state. The second was by shattering the gentlemanly English code of sexual discretion and making little attempt to disguise his homosexuality. For this he was arrested on the charge of gross indecency. Compassionate, amusing, and insightful, 'Breaking the Code' is a play about the remarkable mind of a mathematical genius and the tragic fate of a man.
