Breaking the Code

A moving biographical drama about Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician whose revolutionary work in cryptography helped shorten World War II — and whose life was later destroyed by the very society he helped save. The play moves fluidly between different periods of Turing's life: his schoolboy years and first experience of love and intellectual connection; his groundbreaking work at Bletchley Park, where he and a team of eccentric, driven codebreakers race against time to crack the German Enigma code; and the postwar years, when Turing becomes the subject of a police investigation due to Britain's criminalization of homosexuality. At its heart, Breaking the Code explores the cost of truth in a world built on secrecy.