Winner of the WHATS ON STAGE 2010 AWARD for Best Regional Touring Production.
Adapted for the stage by Ben Power and Tim Carroll
Cast:
- Matt Devereaux: Bandmaster
- William Findley: Goldsmith
- Dominic Gerrard: Edgington
- Sholto Morgan: Spike
- David Morley Hale: Kidgell
Creative Team:
- Tim Carroll: Director
- Laura Hopkins: Designer
- James Farncombe: Lighting Designer
- John Leonard: Sound Designer
- Sian Williams: Choreographer
- Oliver Jackson: Musical Supervisor
In 2009-2010 Jenny assisted on this FIVE star touring production produced by West End Producer Greg Ripley-Duggan.
Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs are finally brought to the stage. This anarchic odyssey charts Gunner Milligan’s progress through World War Two – and with Spike’s sense of lunacy, anything can happen along the way! High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow him and his jazz quartet, adrift on the ride of great historic events. Using Milligan’s own words, the show joyously fuses comedy, song and dance – showing how humour, music and comradeship enabled a hapless bunch of young men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War machine.
****
“Joyously funny…”
Guardian
*****
“Entertainingly off-beat… Was it the British sense of humour that finally saw off Adolf Hitler? This show puts the case, brilliantly. Read the full review”
Daily Telegraph
“A well-crafted adaptation of Spike Milligan’s memoirs…”
Independent