Sprung Advance Plus presented Enigma at the Physical Fellowship 2023 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventtry. The piece was devised with the group to explore the festival’s theme Freedom.
On June 7, 1954, Alan Turing, a British mathematician, acknowledged as one the most innovative and powerful thinkers of the 20th century — sometimes called the inventor of modern computing — died as a criminal, having been convicted under Victorian laws as a homosexual and forced to endure chemical castration.
Sprung Advance Plus started the creation of Enigma exploring the life of Alan Turing understanding that Britain didn’t take its first steps towards decriminalizing homosexuality until 1967. But their biggest questions were around how much have things changed since that ‘ground breaking’ change of law?
Enigma looks at our freedom to really be who we are and the sometimes-difficult challenges we all face in accepting our true identities. Set in a crazy world of escape rooms, Enigma reveals how perhaps when we are most lost we can find ourselves.
