Greg Ripley-Duggan with LHP Ltd,
Chichester Festival Theatre, Charles Diamond and
1001 Nights presents
a Bristol Old Vic co-production

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AWARD FOR BEST REGIONAL PRODUCTION

A man called Chamberlain who did Prime Minister impressions spoke on the wireless; he said, ‘As from eleven o’clock we are at war with Germany’. (I loved the ‘we’).

‘War?’ said Mother.

‘It must be something we said,’ said Father...

Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs take to the road once more in this gloriously absurd and exuberant hit comedy with music, which has had both audiences and critics in stitches.

High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow Gunner Milligan and his jazz quartet, adrift on the tide of great historic events, discovering how humour, music and comradeship enabled a hapless bunch of young men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War machine.

Live numbers include the jazz greats Chattanooga Choo Choo, Ain’t Misbehavin’, In the Mood, Honeysuckle Rose, Kalamazoo and many more.

Warning: contains barrack room humour
 

adapted for the stage by
Ben Power and Tim Carroll

Directed by Tim Carroll
Designed by Laura Hopkins
Lighting by James Farncombe
Sound by John Leonard
Choreography by Sian Williams
Musical Supervision by Oliver Jackson
Casting by Jill Green CDG

Cast includes Matthew Devereaux, William Findley, Dominic Gerrard, Richard Mark, Sholto Morgan, David Morley Hale & Matthew Rutherford.