Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonHugh Whitemore's 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning When premiered in 1986, giving Derek Jacobi a key career role, Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code was instrumental in spreading knowledge of the precocious brilliance of mathematician Alan Turing, whose brutal treatment by a homophobic and ung…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM on September 17, 2025