THEATRE + COMEDY

Theatre Southwest presents Breaking the Code, by Hugh Whitemore. Directed by Mimi Holloway. Assisted by Betty McCormick.  Running April 8 through April 30.

The play tells the story of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, who devised the means of cracking the German Enigma code which helped win World War II. Meanwhile, he also “broke the code” by being unapologetically homosexual at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain. It was on Churchill's specific instructions that Turing was given all the resources he required - and his personal behavior tolerated. However, they system eventually catches up with Alan.

Mathematician AlanTuring was considered a hero for breaking the German enigma code, yet was seen as a threat to society for breaking a more personal code. A powerful portrait of a conflicted genius.

with... Kevin Daugherty, Kurt Bauer, Taylor Biltoft,  David Bradley, Brandon Hobratschk, David Holloway, Scott Holmes, Elizabeth Marshall and Zona Jane Meyer.

Theatre Southwest is supported in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and from the Houston Endowment.