This truly is one of the seminal plays of the twentieth century. If you know a kid who shows some talent in mathematics, but they aren’t too sure what it’s good for, take them to this excellent production. They’ll see something that is rarely dramatized convincingly: how pure intellect was essential to the fight against fascism. They will also see how the hypocrisy of Democracies almost rendered that victory meaningless.

I have only one minor complaint with the script. The moment of discovery of the solution to the Enigma code is not shown. Neither is Turing’s discovery of his own nature, as a homosexual and as a gifted mathematician. Whitemore may have been a bit too concerned with avoiding biographical convention.