From a social outcast to an object of national pity and finally to the status of a wartime hero, Alan Turing’s reputation has had an extraordinary trajectory since his death. But now his mere name is enough to have audiences wowed by a new musical at the Edinburgh festival fringe.
In The Vault, a small venue under a bridge in the city’s old town, the cast of Alan Turing: a Musical Biography, were putting the last touches to their emotional show on Friday afternoon.
