SECRETLY
HENRY VEGA [ music ]
SJARON MINAILO [ director ]
60 MINUTE MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE
The Secretly Turing project is a theatrical musical performance that involves the ARTEk
Ensemble performing music by Henry Vega directed by Sjaron Minaillo.
Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist who worked at the
secretive Bletchley Park code breaking facilities during WWII. His life is shrouded by
amazing achievements and events which happened away from the public eye and have only begun
to come to light since the 1990's. Achievements which have had a deep impact on our present
day concerns such as ubiquitous computing, information privacy, government secrecy, same sex rights
and neo-humanism.
THE OPERA
Events from Alan Turing's life will be acted out through scenes from various current events.
We will tell Turing's story by superimposing a list of current issues and crises to reveal his
life in a relevant staging to what he endured as mathematician, codebreaker and homosexual.
Moments in the course of Turing's life include his monumental paper on 'computational machines'.
This event will be represented by current 'drone' security technology; his sentencing
as a sex offender will be represented via the Bradley Manning whistleblower drama and Turing's
suicide will be interpreted as an employer at the Foxconn factory in China.
THE CAST
voice 1 : Anat Spiegel
voice 2 : Stephanie Pan
voice 3 : Stefanie Janssen
THE ENSEMBLE
cello 1 : Eduard van Regteren Altena
cello 2 : Jan Willem Troost
cello 3 : Jacqueline Hammelink
cello 4 : Annie Tangeberg
live electronics : Yota Morimoto