‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: Hilarious Small-Scale Musical Could Become a Big Hit
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variety.comDavid Benedict Is the quite splendid “Operation Mincemeat” ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence operation sounds like a mad idea until you hear the bonkers details of the actual story.
Now running at Southwark Playhouse in London, this is the musical you didn’t know you needed — until you see the expert cast of five embracing and racing through a clutch of preposterous yet endearing characters and musical styles, telling a story with delicious precision.
Set firmly in the past, this is a little show with a very big future.The story of a stolen corpse masquerading as a fine, upstanding RAF pilot carrying a briefcase full of fake.
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