Breaking the Code (Library Edition Audio CDs) (Audio Theatre Collection)

Hugh Whitemore

ISBN 10: 1580812821 ISBN 13: 9781580812825

Publisher: L.A. Theatere Works, 2004

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Hugh Whitemore began his career in British television, writing many original plays and dramatizations, twice receiving the Writers Guild Awards. He has also written for American TV, including a four-hour film about the Alger Hiss case, Concealed Enemies, which won an Emmy Award for the best mini-series. His work has twice been named Best Single TV drama by the Broadcasting Press Guild, he has received the Scripter Prize in Hollywood, the Script Prize at the 1998 Monte Carlo Festival and a special Communications Award from the American Mathematical Society. His most recent work, The Gathering Storm won the 2002 Emmy Award for outstanding writing, two Golden Globes, the Writers Guild of America Award, Peabody Award and the 2003 Emmy Award for A House In Umbria.

Reviews

During WWII, the Nazis developed the supposedly unbreakable Enigma Code, which the British had to crack or risk losing the war. Brilliant mathematician Alan Turing succeeded and was highly praised by Churchill and awarded the OBE. But when his homosexuality was revealed, at a time when homosexuality was a crime in Britain, his career was destroyed. Turing eventually committed suicide. Whitemore's play revolves around breaking the code of silence about homosexuality, not really the Enigma Code. Dynamic production by L.A. Theatre Works turns what could have been a maudlin exposé into compelling theater. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: L.A. Theatere Works
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580812821
• ISBN 13: 9781580812825
• Binding: Audio CD