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    Breaking the Code
    Breaking the Code
    Breaking the Code
    Audiobook2 hours

    Breaking the Code

    Written by Hugh Whitemore

    Narrated by Simon Templeman, W. Morgan Sheppard, Orlando Seale and

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    About this audiobook

    Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. Shortly after, Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation.

    Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.

    Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in July, 2003.

    Breaking the Code is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

    • Directed by Rosalind Ayres
    • Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
    • Sheelagh Cullen as Sara Turing
    • Kenneth Danziger as Detective Mick Ross
    • Peter Dennis as John Smith
    • Samantha Robson as Pat Green
    • Orlando Seale as Ron Miller
    • W. Morgan Sheppard as Dillwyn Knox
    • André Sogliuzzo as Christopher Morcom and Nikos
    • Simon Templeman as Alan Turing
    • Associate Producer: Susan Raab
    • Recording Engineer: David Kelly for Voicebox Studios
    • Assistant Recording Engineer/Editor: Mark Holden
    • Live Sound Effects: GiGi Garcia
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateMar 1, 2005
    ISBN9781580814195
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    • 3/5
      A play about Alan Turing and his code-breaking activities. It focuses on both the mathematics and on his homosexuality, but does not render the latter in a prurient or leering way as many do. The author chose to ground each scene in time and space, but not tell you what those times and spaces are, which makes it difficult to figure out since it does not proceed in a linear fashion. Only by knowing something about both Alan Turing and history can you begin to make much sense of it, except in one scene where he references 1948 as being four years before; that's nice, but the next scene dips back into Turing's youth, the middle aged man becomes a teenager, and you're back to being lost. The explanations of Turing's ideas was good, the play was interesting, but reading it is difficult because of the refusal to consider the most basic rules of storytelling; not a problem if you're writing a play where time doesn't matter, but in a play of this nature, the author is, in my opinion, being a jerk for the sake of art.
    • 3/5
      A play about Alan Turing and his code-breaking activities. It focuses on both the mathematics and on his homosexuality, but does not render the latter in a prurient or leering way as many do. The author chose to ground each scene in time and space, but not tell you what those times and spaces are, which makes it difficult to figure out since it does not proceed in a linear fashion. Only by knowing something about both Alan Turing and history can you begin to make much sense of it, except in one scene where he references 1948 as being four years before; that's nice, but the next scene dips back into Turing's youth, the middle aged man becomes a teenager, and you're back to being lost. The explanations of Turing's ideas was good, the play was interesting, but reading it is difficult because of the refusal to consider the most basic rules of storytelling; not a problem if you're writing a play where time doesn't matter, but in a play of this nature, the author is, in my opinion, being a jerk for the sake of art.
    • 4/5
      It's always a bit of a challenge to read a play without having seen it. This one is particularly difficult because it skips in time from childhood to war efforts and post war events and back again; visual cues from the stage would make the transition easier than on the page.This said, this 'time warping' is an effective ploy to recount not only Alan Turing's professional contributions (computing and cryptography) but also his personal difficulties. It gives a very tight account of the man in his research, his personality and the main events of his life. Despite the very technical nature of his work, it is explained in an easily accessible fashion, with a sense of wonder. Generally a precise look at a man's extraordinary contribution.
    • 4/5
      British mathematician Alan Turing reports the burglary of his house to the police. Under questioning he tries to give the detective information about whom he suspects of the crime, but the detective can tell Turing is lying and the investigation leads to further questioning. Turing becomes flustered and admits to having an affair with one of the suspects. It's 1951, homosexuality is illegal, and Turing's admission leads to a conviction and chemical castration for the man who had been awarded an O.B.E. for conceiving a code-breaking computer that helped the Allies win during WWII.This play, based on facts, follows the years of Turing's life from about 1948 to 1951, with a flashback to his childhood. The scene changes are done fluidly with the actor simply changing a jacket and lighting changes. It was first performed in London in 1986, then went to Broadway, with Derek Jacobi as Turing, and Jacobi also appeared in the filming of the play. I put this in my "Something Led Me to the Book" category as I first learned about it because my favorite actor, John Castle, took over the role in 1987.