(BLUNT enters in the shadows and lingers there, smoking his cigar, listening to the TAPE.)
TAPE: And that's how it all ended, not ten days past... I've seen the birth of a new world order and said goodbye to the only man I ever knew how to love... A prestigious art curator is on his way to kill me and there's no one left to bear witness but myself... But I've made my choice. I've seen the world that you'll be living in and I've told you everything I know... The rest, I'm afraid, is up to you...
(BLUNT turns off the reel-to-reel. He removes the TAPE and tosses it into the case of ALAN's Delilah. Closing the suitcase, BLUNT exits with it in hand. Lights down.)
The End
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The Turing Tape - a one-act play
Historical Fiction"The Turing Tape", a one-act play, is a madcap conspiracy theory about the life and times of Alan Mathison Turing, a brilliant cryptanalyst, computer visionary, and homosexual within the British intelligence community of the 1940s and 50s. The play'...
