_La Machine de Turing_ tells the life-story of war-time cryptanalyst
Alan TURING.Alan Turing is the British mathematician who developed the
Turing Machine, considered a model for the computer. Turing was
instrumental during World War II for helping to break the German
Enigma code. He was also gay, and after the war he was prosecuted by
the British government and forced to take chemical treatments that
would castrate him as opposed to going to prison.
At the heart of the play is a powerful love story and the importance
of freedom, in relation to Turing's own life, death and posthumous
re-evaluation. It is the story of Turing the genius, Turing the victim
and Turing the constant in a tumultuous world.
It is a story about the importance of truth and injustice and of
keeping and revealing secrets. The play examines his pioneering work
considering whether a machine could think, asking the questions "what
is the difference between a human and a machine?" and "If a human is
prevented from thinking, do they then become a machine?"
Written by Benoit Solès and directed by Tristan Petitgirard
With Benoit Solès and Amaury de Crayencour
**PLAY IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES**
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11/04/2020 Last update