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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

Operation Mincemeat at Fortune Theatre review: this gung-ho musical could be just what the West End needs

On paper, SpitLip Theatre’s delicious knockabout musical about a plot to fox Hitler shouldn’t work. Neither should the operation it was based on. But MI5’s crackpot misdirection scheme, in which fake invasion papers were planted on a washed-up corpse, helped change the course of the Second World War.

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