Alan Turing’s story on stage at Liverpool Playhouse 

Hugh Whitemore’s ‘Breaking the Code’, a play about the life of mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday, 21 October 2025 to Saturday, 25 October 2025 in a new production directed by Jesse Jones. 

Based on Andrew Hodges’ book ‘Alan Turing: The Enigma’, the play follows his extraordinary career and explores how society’s prejudice towards his sexuality, and the brutal treatment he received from a homophobic and ungrateful state, changed the course of his life. 

Director, Jesse Jones, said: “The more time I’ve spent with Alan Turing through this play, the more extraordinary he becomes to me. We think of him as the man who cracked the Enigma code, but his story is so much bigger than that. Breaking the Code gives us the chance to see him in all his complexity – his genius, his humour, his contradictions, his bravery, and his pain. It breaks the code of him a little bit, and makes him human.” 

Cast of Breaking the Code:

• Alan Turing is played by Mark Edel-Hunt (Leopoldstadt, West End) 
• Mick Ross is played by Niall Costigan (The Railway Children, Hull Truck Theatre) 
• Dillwyn Knox is played by Peter Hamilton Dyer (The Promise, Chichester Festival Theatre) 
• Pat Green is played by Carla Harrison-Hodge (Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd Company) 
• Sara Turing / Smith is played by Susie Trayling (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End) 
• Ron Miller / Nikos is played by Joe Usher (Falkland Sound, RSC) 

Young Everyman Playhouse graduate Joseph Edwards, recently nominated for ‘Best Performer in a Play’ at The Stage Debut Awards 2025, also joins the cast of Breaking the Code as Christopher Morcom/Sixth-Former. 

Co-produced by Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, A Royal & Derngate Northampton, Landmark Theatres and Oxford Playhouse, in association with HOME, this revival features new material that speaks to Turing’s enduring legacy in modern Britain and the development of Turing’s Law. It includes a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, written in response to Turing’s Royal pardon in 2013. 

Nathan Powell, creative director of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, added:  “Alan Turing’s story is one that continues to inspire and challenge us. This revival of Breaking the Code not only celebrates his brilliance but also reflects on the prejudice he faced and the legacy he leaves for us today. We’re thrilled to be telling this story at the Playhouse, and to be doing so alongside such fantastic co-producing partners.” 

Tickets are priced from £11 to £36 and can be purchased here.