Breaking the Code Breaking the Code Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality. It was adapted as a 1996 television film directed by Herbert Wise, with Derek Jacobi reprising his stage role as Turing. Following an eight-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London's West End beginning on 21 October 1986, the play
Cracking The Code layers of guitar tracks, Petit's aim with Cracking The Code was different, he explained: "I wanted to reach a place where there is one guitar that is massive and huge… I didn’t want the distortion to be tidy; I wanted it to be ragged". Upon returning to London, Petit experienced a "mental blockage" which left him temporarily unable to finish some of the songs for Cracking The Code: "Some of the songs were finished, some of the songs had the hook without the verse, and some had no lyrics at all. I wanted to make sure that the lyrics matched