Extra - E46 - Last chance to see That is All You Need to Know

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

November 2015

Time is running out to see That is All You Need to Know, an original play which shines a light on the Home of the Codebreakers.

Created by theatre company, Idle Motion, the work pulls together three different strands of Bletchley Park’s history; Alan Turing and his team breaking the Enigma code during World War Two, Gordon Welchman writing his ground-breaking book, The Hut Six Story, in the 1970s and the campaign to save the site for posterity in the 1990s.

That is All You Need to Know completes its final run next month, with shows each night from Tuesday 15 December to Saturday 19 December at the New Diorama Theatre in London.

Grace Chapman and Ellie Simpson, two of Idle Motion’s Co-directors, explained the inspiration behind the play. They said, “A couple of years ago now we learnt about Alan Turing and felt very inspired to put his life on stage. However, since we started researching his life we very quickly realised that all that he achieved at Bletchley Park was not just about Alan Turing’s genius. It was actually a collection of hundreds and hundreds of people’s hard work, and we felt very inspired to get the story on the stage.”

The show uses audio clips of Veterans’ interviews, provided by the Bletchley Park Trust Oral History Project, as well as multimedia projections, traditional props and even puppetry, to highlight the interweaving histories.

To buy tickets visit http://newdiorama.com/whats-on/that-is-all-you-need-to-know

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Grace and I'm Ellie and we're from Idol Motion Theatre Company.
0:19.0	As a company we've been going for about seven years.
0:23.2	Seven years or so. We make devised theatre, which is very film mix. There's a lot of multimedia, a lot of physicality.
0:31.6	And a couple of years ago now, we learnt about the life of Alan Turing and felt very inspired to put his life on stage.
0:39.9	However, as soon as we started researching his life, he led us to Bletchley Park,
0:44.3	and we very, very quickly realised that all that he achieved there at Bletchley Park
0:49.0	was not just about Alan Turing's genius.
0:51.2	It was actually a collection of hundreds of people's hard work,
0:54.7	and we felt very inspired to put this story on stage.
0:58.3	Therefore, if a human can calculate a number, then so can a machine.
1:02.4	A machine. I don't know if we have time to construct some sort of...
1:08.0	The sheet's stacking rooms are trying to show.
1:09.2	Two boys, too slow. If you can construct a machine to end-siphon, then you can construct a machine to
1:15.6	dis-siphon, that is what we are going to do.
1:18.6	Build on the work of the Poles, construct a machine to help speed up the deciphering process.
1:23.6	A British bomb!
1:26.6	A British bomb! Not an explosive, but Turing's brilliant machine
1:31.1	that would enable us to start to get into the Enigma codes. I remember when we first started
1:36.1	making the show, we would tell people that we were making a show about Bletchley Park and
1:41.3	I think we were always quite surprised by how little people knew about it. And this is, you know, a few years ago now. And I think we were always surprised by how little people knew about it. And this is, you know, a few yearsley Park. And I think we were always quite surprised by how little people knew about it.
1:45.6	And this is, you know, a few years ago now. And I think that really spurred us on to make it because
1:50.9	we felt like there was a real injustice that not enough people knew about these people's
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