I am never fully comfortable with Operation Mincemeat being described as a musical because it is so much more.  It is also a comedy, satire, thriller.  The music itself draws from many different styles and just as you have learnt to laugh at the lyrics, Jak Malone as Hester, the lonely civil servant will sing “Dear Bill” a letter to a lover, full of painful reality.  This is a part of the back story of the body in the sea which has been prepared with meticulous detail.  

Robert Hastie has joined as director for the West End launch and there is a brand new set from Ben Stones with maps of Europe and a backdrop of graphs as well as the essential telephones.  There are projections too lit up on the back screen. Two desks move around to change the venue and there is new spectacular lighting from Mark Henderson.