After sold-out improvement runs on the New Diorama Theatre in 2019 and Southwark Playhouse in 2020, 2021 & 2022, plus an prolonged Riverside Studios run this summer time, Operation Mincemeat transfers to the West End’s Fortune Theatre for previews (SpitLip by no means relaxation on their laurels) beginning on the twenty ninth March, adopted by an 8-week run starting on the ninth May 2023. Operation Mincemeat can be following thirty-three massively profitable years of The Woman In Black on the Fortune Theatre.
The 12 months is 1943 and we’re dropping the conflict. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse.
Singin’ within the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that gained us World War II. The query is, how did a well-dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?
Operation Mincemeat gained The Stage Debut award for Best Composer/Lyricist, the Off-West End award for Best Company Ensemble and was listed within the Observer’s Top 10 exhibits of the 12 months. The present is at present featured within the V&A’s Re:Imagining Musicals show, exploring how musicals have repeatedly reimagined, reinvented and reinterpreted themselves over time.