Is the quite splendid “Operation Mincemeat” ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence opera…
of the same name. But I’d lay money that none of those match this show’s gloriously tasteless second-act opener, in which the Nazis dance a hip-hop number including the deathless lyric “Step to the left, lurch to the far-right.”
Natasha Morgan is smug Ewen Montagu, an officer who sees the potential in the ludicrous scheme dreamed up by glaringly gauche Cholmondeley , who is too tongue-tied to sell it to the boss Johnny Bevan . Composer Felix Hagan supplies the cast with everything from “Hamilton”-esque rap to jazz hands, via a tango number and a sea-shanty, to tell the ludicrously enjoyable story. Thought you’d never see an ensemble number in top hat and tails about a celebrity coroner? Think again.
Helen Coyston’s design is ideally economic, with not a wasted surface or prop, and choreographer Jenny Arnold consistently springs tiny delights and surprises. She’s aided and abetted by lighting designer Sherry Coenen, who cunningly uses handheld flashlights to allow the cast to switch instantly mid-number back and forth between dancing Nazis and a group of submariners.
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