
Breaking the Code
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Hugh Whitemore’s deeply moving, intellectually fierce drama 'Breaking the Code' turned the stage of the Neil Simon Theatre into a spectacular, heart-filled monument of historical biography in 1987. Based on the real-life history of British mathematical genius Alan Turing, the fluid narrative charts his historic, top-secret work at Bletchley Park cracking the German "Enigma" cipher to save the Allies during World War II, contrasted tragically with his post-war public disgrace and forced chemical castration under Britain's homophobic gross indecency laws. Directed by Clifford Williams, the acronym-packed production was anchored by Dame Derek Jacobi’s monumental lead performance.

