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The Turing Tape - a one-act play

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british cambridge comedy computer computing enigma espionage farce gayfiction gaylove gayromance lovestory manchester mathematics nazi playwright soviet spystory stageplay theatre theatrical thriller ww2fiction wwii

"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's chief conceit is that, through a troubled romantic relationship with fellow mathematician Robin Gandy, Turing was drawn into the cloak-and-dagger world of notorious Soviet moles Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.

At its heart, "The Turing Tape" is a love story, tracing Turing's obsession with Gandy from their benign picnics during the London bombings of 1941, through his homosexual trial and state-sponsored oestrogen injections of 1952, to his lonely and tragic death in June of 1954. Interwoven throughout the play is the titular Turing Tape, a secretly encrypted account of events, recorded by Alan in his final days as he awaits assassination at the hands of the KGB.All Rights Reserved

british cambridge comedy computer computing enigma espionage farce gayfiction gaylove gayromance lovestory manchester mathematics nazi playwright soviet spystory stageplay theatre theatrical thriller ww2fiction wwii

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