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West End & Broadway Hit 'Operation Mincemeat' Is Coming To Australia, So Here's What You Need To Know

Operation Mincemeat, the most exciting production to come out of London’s West End in a hot minute, is finally on its way to Australia.

Pedestrian.tv · 17h ago

My cultural awakening: Operation Mincemeat taught me how to cry – now I sob at everything

A musical number about a woman’s letter to her husband on the second world war frontline unlocked my ability to blub – and made me a happier person

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21

‘We wrote it living on Tesco sandwiches and anxiety attacks!’ How Operation Mincemeat conquered the world

It started out as a fringe musical about an outlandish war plan – and became a West End and Broadway smash. As the show hits China, Australia and Mexico, its ‘nerd’ creators explain how they went global with a box of hats and a dream

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025

Operation Mincemeat stars Colin Firth in a straightforward retelling of a WWII strategy to trick Nazis with a decoy corpse

A grisly scenario is brought to life in this polite but predictable dramatic thriller — with lashings of pitch-black humour — from the director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

ABC News · May 11, 2022

‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: How Colin Firth and company faked an invasion and helped win WWII, now on Netflix

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter.

Chicago Tribune · May 11, 2022

Movie review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ a nicely crafted telling of fascinating slice of British deception during World War II

It is said that dead men tell no tales.

Tribune News Service · May 11, 2022

Operation Mincemeat Netflix: Bizarre true story of how a corpse fooled Hitler

Operation Mincemeat is a daring tale of wartime intrigue and deception. A film starring Colin Firth looks into the top-secret World War 2 operation that helped changed the course of the war

Daily Mirror · May 11, 2022

‘Operation Mincemeat’: A dead body dupes the Nazis in stylish film that’s sometimes heavy, sometimes crazy

The changes in tone work as a British officer (Colin Firth) uses a ridiculous plan to save thousands of lives.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 5, 2022

The incredible true story behind the body of a Welsh man that fooled Hitler

The Hollywood film Operation Mincemeat tells the story of the deception effort to keep plans for the Allied Invasion of Sicily in 1943 a secret

Wales Online · May 2, 2022

‘This is not the World War II I was taught about’: The story behind Operation Mincemeat the musical

The theatre company SpitLip talk to Isobel Lewis about turning ‘Operation Mincemeat’ into a musical comedy for the stage – ‘it’s a British tradition to make fun of the terrible things we do’

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022