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250 years later, one man's
dream becomes another man's obsession. It's 1939, and brilliant
young mathematician Alan Turing is recruited to the intelligence
centre at Bletchley Park to help break the German Enigma
code. While there, he stumbles upon an even greater mystery.
Blueprints for a chess-playing automaton that seemed to
possess the ability to think for itself. Was the first intelligent
machine lost to history? Or were there strings attached?
Inspired by the bestselling
book and BBC Radio Four series The Mechanical Turk (by Telegraph
and Economist writer Tom Standage), this playful, physically-charged
ensemble performance blends the extraordinary life and legacy
of a chess-playing automaton with the prescience - and pain
- of one of Britain's finest minds.
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