As many of my classmates are aware, I used to listen to a podcast called “History This Week” and they would release an episode about a cool historical story that happened years ago on the week of the episode’s release. One week, the episode was about Operation Mincemeat, so when I found out that we …
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Operation Mincemeat
“Operation Mincemeat” being a theatre show and especially a comedy, of course a lot of stuff had to be dramatized and added to make the show enjoyable but many of the things in the musical did actually happen. Montagu did go on to make a film about Operation Mincemeat and Willie Watkins was a real …
I Spy, With My Little (M)Eye(-5)
As a whole, I feel that it is hard to judge the accuracy of any spying operation presented in any media, as having a basis to judge accuracy kind of defeats the basic purpose of the operation. However, Operation Mincemeat I believe could be counted as a fairly accurate portrayal of spywork and espionage, with …
TOP SECRET (only read with credentials)
This production is given the TPRBS: 6/7. Turn Hamilton into a comedy, add a dash of satire from The Book of Mormon, sprinkle in a stolen corpse, mix in a few rapping dubstep Nazis, and you get Operation Mincemeat. Winner of the 2024 Olivier Best New Musical Award, this five-man show is going places. This …
Operation Mincemeat
SPOILERS!!! In London’s West End Fortune Theatre’s production of Operation Mincemeat, spying is presented as a bit of a joke. Montagu didn’t seem to take the mission seriously saying everything will be fine, even if there were reasons to worry like when they found out another Ally plane crashed in the same spot on the …
WOAHH… What a Musical !!
Make a musical about World War 2 and it is the funniest thing ever? Turns out you can do exactly that. Operation Mincemeat is a new musical performing at Fortunes Theatre. With its debut in 2019, it quickly grew to be a favorite, having won the Laurance Olivier Award for Best Musical in 2024. It …
Operation Mincemeat
Yesterday we watched Operation Mincemeat, a comedic musical of a British operation to trick Hitler into moving German troops off of Sicily so that allies could move in easily. It is actually based off of a true story! It takes place in 1943 and MI5 needs some plan to get the German army to move …
You Only Live (die) Twice
Operation Mincemeat is a comical look at Spycraft, perhaps being the oddest and most macabre look at espionage I’ve seen to date. Mincemeat portrays spying as more of a prolonged group project than one individual On Her Majesty’s Secret Service going to foreign lands with a License To Kill. Its version of spying takes away …
6. Klepto-muffins!
Long time no see, my paparazzi! Today we started off our trip with a journey to the Sky Garden, which is another place where one can get a very nice view of London. We spent about an hour there, hanging out above the city before leaving for lunch. Personally, I sat 160m above the city …
Borough Market and Yummy Food!
Today’s attraction was Borough Market! It was bustling and very crowded as we arrived during lunch time. Not only is this a massive area to get delicious food from nearly every culture and country you can think of: it has existed for a millennium! In its beginning, Borough Market was located one end of the …
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