Alan Turing Play TO KILL A MACHINE Coming to King's Head Theatre

Transferring to the King's Head Theatre after successful runs in Wales and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, Scriptography Productions' To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Hews tells the story of Alan Turing through the lens of a gameshow. The production will run April 6th - 23rd 2016, 7pm (Tuesday-Sunday) at King's Head Theatre.

To Kill a Machine tells the life-story of war-time cryptanalyst Alan Turing. 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?" 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.

Created in 2012, Scriptography Productions looks to support and develop writers, find new platforms for text based work to be produced and encourage cross disciplinary collaborations. To Kill a Machine was nominated for four Wales Theatre Awards - Best Actor for Gwydion Rhys, Best Director Angharad Lee, Best Writer Catrin Fflur Huws and Best Production.

The cast includes Gwydion Rhys, Francois Pandolfo, Rick Yale and Robert Harper. It is directed by Angharad Lee and produced by Sandra Bendelow for Scriptography Productions.

After a bombastic, exciting and innovative 45th year, the King's Head continues its new artistic policy of being a crucible of new writing and critical rediscoveries, whilst also welcoming the much-anticipated return of pub opera, with the aim of being the best pub theatre in London. The King's Head offers an unashamedly broad church of programming including theatre, musical theatre and opera, transfers to and from the biggest arts festivals in the world, and a trail-blazing policy of ethical employment on the fringe - if it's on here, you won't see it anywhere else.

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