Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat is SpitLip’s award-winning original musical about the extraordinary British deception that helped change the course of the Second World War. In 1943, a team of intelligence officers devise an audacious plan involving a corpse, a false identity and forged documents intended to mislead Nazi Germany about the Allied invasion of Sicily. Five performers play dozens of characters in a fast-paced production that moves between sharp comedy, emotional storytelling and an eclectic live score. Inspired by real events, the musical celebrates ingenuity and overlooked wartime figures while asking who gets remembered as a hero. This stage show is distinct from the film adaptation of the same historical operation.