Win! Tickets to Breaking the Code at the Royal Exchange
Published on 26 October 16
We have two tickets to Breaking the Code at the Royal Exchange on Wednesday 2 November. To be in with a chance of winning, count the triangles in the picture and email your answer to studentnews@manchester.ac.uk. Winners will be drawn at random from correct entries.
Breaking the Code
In the leafy surroundings of Bletchley Park at the height of the Second World War, a brilliant young mathematician called Alan Turing was working away at a problem. The creation of a machine. A machine that would crack the German Enigma code and win Britain the war.
In the aftermath of victory, Turing arrived in Manchester with an even bigger task in mind – the development of the modern computer. It would be a task he left unfinished, publically humiliated and destroyed by the revelation of his sexuality and prosecution for indecency.
Hugh Whitemore’s classic play intertwines an account of Turing's most heroic hour with the story of his betrayal and neglect by the nation he had helped in its darkest hour.
Robert Hastie, (Artistic Director, Sheffield Theatres) directs BAFTA winning Daniel Rigby (ERIC AND ERNIE) in the first major revival of this play for 30 years.
Deadline: 5pm Tuesday, 25 October