Director Michael Rupert has just announced his cast for our October production of Hugh Whitemore's drama, Breaking the Code.
RICHARD WORSWICK
Alan Turing
ROBERT BRANCH
Mick Ross
HARRIET DeVETO
Sara Turing
GABE RIAZI
Ron Miller
ALEX CIKRA
Dillwyn Knox
TOM STEPHAN
John Smith
JENNIFER KLIKA
Pat Green
NICHOLAS VARRICCHIO
Christopher Morcom
TO BE ANNOUNCED
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This engrossing bigraphical drama tells the true story of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who won praise from Winston Churchill for cracking the German code called Enigma during World War II.
An “elegant and poignant” tale (William A. Henry, Time) of “a sensitive genius whose homosexuality leads to his crucifixion by the hypocrital establishment,” the play casts “a stirring hero at cener stage” (Frank Rich, The New York Times). Despite all he had done for his country, Mr. Turing’s life ends tragically when he admits his homosexuality to the police while reporting a routine burglary and they are duty-bound to prosecute him. A heartbreaking account of an honorable character led to his doom by a bigoted era that “may well prove to be the most important serious play of the season” (John Beaufort, The Christian Science Monitor).
The play's director, Michael Rupert, is a three-time Tony Award-nominee and Tony Award-winner (for Best Supporting Actor in Musical for the 1986 revival of Sweet Charity). As an actor, his Broadway credits include Legally Blonde, Ragtime, Falsettos (Tony nomination), City of Angels, Mail, Sweet Charity (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Pippin, The Happy Time (Tony nomination). Off Broadway: Elegies, Putting It Together. As a composer: Mail (L.A. Drama Critics nomination), 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down (Drama Desk nomination).
Breaking the Code plays on Weathervane's Founders Theater stage from October 7 to 24, 2010.
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