Breaking the Code

It’s hard to imagine life without computers these days. But mathematician Alan Turing managed to break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII with-out so much as a gigabyte of electronic memory. In the mid ’80s, playwright Hugh Whitmore brought Turing’s wondrous accomplishments and diffi-cult life to the stage in the highly successful play Breaking the Code. Turing’s story is a complicated and inspiring one, in part because the great genius was gay during a time when homosexuals were being sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis.

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Theatre Southwest

8944-A Clarkcrest
Houston, TX 77063

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Outer Loop - SW

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After the war, the Brits had their own difficulties with Turing’s sexuality, despite his extraordinary service to his country. Theater Southwest brings this powerful tale about genius and otherness to the stage at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. April 17. Through April 30. 8944 Clarkcrest. For information, call 713-661-9505 or visit www.theatresouthwest.org. $16.
Fridays, Saturdays. Starts: April 8. Continues through April 30, 2011