Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical opened at the 80-seat New Diorama in 2019, winning the Stage Debut award. The Southwark Playhouse was then home for three sell-out runs in 2020, 2021 and 2022, with the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, having an extended run in 2023. Operation Mincemeat then transferred to the West End in 2024, to much excitement and expectation. Following many 5* reviews it has been entertaining people ever since.

The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. The Operation Mincemeat story has previously been documented in the book The Man Who Never Was and in Ben Macintyre’s gripping 2010 book which was the basis for the recent film Operation Mincemeat, directed by John Madden and starring Colin Firth. Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II. The question is, how did a well-dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?