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Breaking the Code

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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
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awards, for Best Actor and Best Featured Actor. Following Jacobi's departure, the London production transferred to the
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The play was also staged just before the start of the Alan Turing Year celebrations, in December 2011, at the
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including Best Actor in a Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play, and Best Direction of a Play, and for two
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magazine, described the play as "elegant and poignant". The Broadway production was nominated for three
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was used by Alan Turing himself in a fragmentary autobiographical short story dated 1954 (
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Ron Miller, a young man having an affair with Turing (based on Arnold Murray)
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The national première for Italy of the play was translated and directed by
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and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's
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Patricia "Pat" Green, a co-worker of Turing's at Bletchley (based on
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in 2016, the first major revival of the play in thirty years, with
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University Players on Tour: Breaking the Code, 14 Sep - 1 Nov 2012
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Performance details in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
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2012, there were two productions of the play in Germany, at the
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from 15 November 1987, to 10 April 1988, in both cases starring
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and an amateur tour through Germany and the Netherlands by the
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Christopher Morcom, Turing's childhood friend (1911–1930)
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in the role of Pat Green. William A. Henry III, writing in
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TV awards, for best single drama and best actor, and for a
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Media Award. It was broadcast in the United States by
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Index

Hugh Whitemore
mathematician
Alan Turing
German
Enigma code
Bletchley Park
World War II
cryptographic
homosexuality
1996 television film
Herbert Wise
Derek Jacobi
Alan Turing
Dillwyn Knox
Bletchley Park
Joan Clarke
Theatre Royal, Haymarket
London
West End
Broadway
New York City
Derek Jacobi
Jenny Agutter
Time
Tony Awards
Drama Desk
Comedy Theatre
John Castle
Luca Giberti
Teatro Stabile in Genoa

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