Dramatic reading: "Breaking the Code" play

About the play:

The Play is based on the book ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA by Andrew Hodges and tells the story of Alan Turing, brilliant English mathematic, who invented a way of breaking the German Enigma code of communication during the war. At the same time, he also "broke the code" for being openly homosexual at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain. Turing is also regarded the father of computation. Breaking the Code operates in two time periods cleverly interconnected by author Hugh Whitemore: World War II and England in the late 1950s.

About the author:

Hugh Whitemore

Hugh Whitemore (born 1936) is an English playwright and screenwriter. Whitemore studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he is now a Member of the Council. e began his writing career in British television with both original teleplays and adaptations of classic works by Charles Dickens, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, and Charlotte Brontë, among others, and twice won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award.

Whitemore's plays frequently focus on historical figures. Stevie (1977) centred on the life of English poet and novelist Stevie Smith and Pack of Lies (1983) covered events leading up to the arrest of the Krogers, two North Americans spying for the Russians, in London in 1961. Whitemore's best known work taking the form of a staged biography is Breaking the Code (1986) which is centered on Alan Turing, who was responsible for cracking the German Enigma code during World War II and resisted an adherence to the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality, for which he was charged with gross indecency. This work was adapted as a television film in 1996. Whitemore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

About the director:

Plínio Mósca

Plínio Mósca, born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Brasilia, is a director and drama teacher. He was a student of Dulcina de Moraes and attended Theatrical Directing at the Théâtre National de Marseille from 1982 to 1986. He directed Brecht's The exception and the rule at the Entepola Festival in Santiago, Chile and the Ibero- American Festival of Copiapó, Chile. He also directed Brecht's Dansen at the Latin-American Theatre Festival of Ovalle, Chile, at the International Theatre Festival of Punta Arenas, Peru and at the Festival Intinerante y Encuentro de Teatro Popular FIETPO in Lima, Peru. He has been presenting (at various cultural sites in the city) the Dramatized Cycle of Readings of Bertolt Brecht. He performs volunteer work as director and drama teacher along NGOs Parceiros Voluntários and A.M.A.R. A VIDA.