The Code Of Love Musical

Original musical

The Code of Love is a new musical written and composed by Louise Helyer based on the book "The Code of Love" by Andro Linklater.

The Code of Love will be performed at The Thorngate Hall Theatre in Gosport 15th-17th Aug 2013.
Tickets are £6 (£5 concession).
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The Code of Love is based on the true story about the secret diary written in a mathematical code by Donald Samuel Hill during his years as a prisoner of war in Hong Kong and how it came to be deciphered 10 years after his death by Dr Philip Aston. It demonstrates vividly what happens when ordinary people are caught up in global events and transports us back to a romantic world that prizes different values: honour, duty and loyalty.

The Story of Donald and Pamela

In the spring of 1939, Pamela Kirrage, headstrong and beautiful, met Donald Hill, a handsome RAF pilot. After a golden summer of courtship, they became engaged. In September, with Britain now in conflict with Germany, their plans disintegrated. Hill was transferred to the Far East to defend Hong Kong. Sensing that he was caught up in the sweep of great events, he begins a diary in an old school exercise book. However, officers serving abroad were forbidden to keep such records, so Hill devised a secret code that transformed his words into numbers. When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese and Hill was captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he took his diary with him. The Donald Hill who returned from the war, after four brutal years of incarceration, was a dramatically changed man. Though he and Pamela married quickly, once the relief and emotion of their reunion had subsided it was obvious that Donald had been scarred deeply by his experiences. Eventually, tortured by savage flashbacks, he was confined to hospital. Pamela had always known that the numbers in the school book were a code and that somewhere within the lines of figures she would discover the key to understanding Donald's mental collapse. The Code of Love is an unforgettable love story.

The Story of Dr Philip Aston

After Donald's death, Pamela found a mathematician who was willing to make an attempt to decode the diary. The man she found was Dr Philip Aston at Mathematics Department of The University of Surrey. Despite his commitments with his work and raising a young family, Philip Aston believed that there was a diary to be found within the pages of numbers he was given. After several months of intense work on the diary, he eventually cracked the secret to the unlock the diary and he was able to reveal its secrets to Pamela.