Full casting announced for new production of Hugh Whitemore’s BREAKING THE CODE
Full casting has been announced for a brand new production of Hugh Whitemore’s acclaimed play Breaking the Code, which opens at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate on 11 September before visiting Barnstaple, Oxford, Peterborough, Liverpool and Manchester.
The play follows mastermind Alan Turing’s career as a visionary mathematician and codebreaker and examines how society’s attitude towards his sexuality changed the course of his life.
Directed by Royal & Derngate’s Artistic Director Jesse Jones as part of the theatre’s Made in Northampton season, for the first time the revival will feature new material that speaks to Turing’s lasting legacy for modern Britain and the development of Turing’s law, featuring a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett that takes into consideration Turing’s Royal pardon in 2013.
The role of Alan Turing will be played by Mark Edel-Hunt (Leopoldstadt, West End), alongside Niall Costigan (The Railway Children, Hull Truck Theatre) as Mick Ross, Joseph Edwards (The Red Shoes, RSC) as Christopher Morcom/Sixth-Former, Peter Hamilton Dyer (The Promise, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Dillwyn Knox, Carla Harrison-Hodge (Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd Company) as Pat Green, Susie Trayling (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End) as Sara Turing/Smith, and Joe Usher (Falkland Sound, RSC) as Ron Miller/Nikos.
The production features set and costume design by Jonathan Fensom, lighting by Johanna Town, sound and music by Robin Colyer, movement direction by Gerrard Martin, casting by Hannah Miller, and voice and dialect coaching by Gemma Boaden.
Mastermind. Code breaker. Maverick. Arguably one of the most important and inquisitive minds of the twentieth century. Alan Turing is famed for cracking the Enigma code at Bletchley Park, effectively securing victory for the Allied forces in WWII.
From triumph to tragedy, get to know a human being who loved, lost and never stopped asking questions in a quest for truth and understanding in this new production of Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code.