6 to 10 October 2009 - only Scottish dates!

"...an inspired and touching Sholto Morgan as Spike."
The Scotsman - FOUR STARS
 
"Beautifully and simply staged."
Evening News - FOUR STARS

"freewheelingly meticulous"
The Herald - FOUR STARS

“A joyously funny, gloriously ramshackle evening!”
Guardian - FOUR STARS

“Entertainingly off-beat... Was it the British sense of humour that finally saw off Adolf Hitler? This show puts the case, brilliantly.”
The Telegraph - FIVE STARS

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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 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 Milligan and his jazz quartet, adrift on the tide of great historic events. Using his 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.

Warning: contains barrack room humour with strong language and some adult themes.

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

The cast includes: Matt Devereaux, William Findley, Dominic Gerrard, Sholto Morgan and David Morley Hale.