theatre

Breaking the Code.
Breaking the Code is an excellent play. It is based on the life of Alan Turing, a genius mathmetician who helped break the

German 'Enigma' code during World War II. Alan was gay and eventually commited suicide after being hounded by the

authorities.
The play starts in 1952, with Clive's character going to the police to report he has been burgled by a 'George'. He makes up a

story about knowing the culprit's name because he was warned by a door-to-door seller. The play flashes back to different

times: to Alan's schooldays at public school, focusing on a schoolfriend that later died, who Alan was/is in love with; then to the

"present" and him meeting a young man in his late teens in a pub and shyly making advances which end with the man coming to

his house for dinner and spending the night; then back to Alan first getting the job on the Enigma project, developing a friendship

with a female co-worker and telling her he's "a homosexual," the...