The Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, the true story of the 1943 secret mission that helped the Allies turn the tide of the Second World War.
Operation Mincemeat plays the Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 October 2027. It's the Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, and it's coming to Coventry after a run on Broadway.
The show is set in 1943 and tells the true story of the secret mission that helped the Allies turn the tide of the Second World War. It's a fast-paced, funny account of a stolen corpse, a fake love letter, and Ian Fleming coming together to wrong-foot Hitler. The writing is credited to SpitLip — David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts — and it's directed by Robert Hastie.
It's a production that's climbed the ladder over a few years. It started as a small-scale show at London's New Diorama Theatre in 2019, then played Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios before transferring to the Fortune Theatre in the West End in May 2023. Since then, it's picked up 24 awards from 68 nominations, including a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical on Broadway. The reviews have been a bit of a mixed bag of comparisons: The Daily Mirror called it "part Mel Brooks, part SIX, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man, Two Guvnors", The New York Times described it as "the most rewarding theatrical experience I've ever had", and Metro went with "pure theatrical serotonin".
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There are plenty of slots to choose from across the five days. Tuesday and Friday are 7.30pm; Wednesday and Saturday have matinees at 2pm and evening shows at 7.30pm; and Thursday has a 2pm BSL performance alongside the 7.30pm show. Tickets start from £20 including the booking fee, with listed prices running from £32.50 to £51.50.
