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The Theater of the Lycée Français presents La Machine de Turing, a play that has received multiple awards and has been performed more than 400 times already in France.
The incredible fate of Alan Turing, the English mathematician who broke the secret code of the German Enigma during the Second World War. Turing built a thinking machine that turned out to be the first computer. Forced to silence by the British secret services, he was condemned for homosexuality, before committing suicide by crunching a poisoned apple strangely reminiscent of a famous logo …
Play in FRENCH
« Vous est-il déjà arrivé de détenir un secret, un grand secret ? Non ?
Dans ce cas, vous ignorez combien il peut être difficile de le garder pour soi.
De toutes les choses immatérielles, le silence est l’une des plus lourde à porter.
Et justement, ma vie était remplie de secrets…
Avez-vous déjà entendu parler de l’Enigma ?
Bien sûr que non, comment le pourriez-vous ?
Alors, c’est le moment d’être bien attentif. »
This play received 4 Molière awards
– The Private Theater Molière
– The director’s Molière for Tristan Petitgirard
– The actor’s Molière in a private Theater show for Benoit Solès
– The Molière of the living French-speaking author for Benoit Solès
Date: Friday, Nov 4th, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Address: 1201 Ortega Street, San Francisco (entrance from 20th ave.)
Reservation will open soon.