La Machine de Turing

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**