Operation Mincemeat

By Spitlip

Venues: Southwark Playhouse

Date: July 23rd – September 18th 2021 & January 14th – February 19th 2022

I joined the team as Director on Operation Mincemeat in 2021, and developed the show from it’s fringe routes, helping to build the show towards it’s future West End Production.

This was my first time directing a musical, and I was delighted that it won Best Production at the Offies and got fantastic reviews. My production played in the region on 100 performances Off West End between 2021 and 2022.

Reviews

WINNER Off West End Award for BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION

“… director Donnacadh O’Briain conjures a mighty breadth of scenes, so we flit between a smoky club and a panicked submarine with jaw-dropping dexterity… It blew the roof clean off.” ★★★★★ Daily Mail

“… a miraculous musical that tells the entire story in a kind of accelerated farce that is part Mel Brooks, part SIX, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man,Two Guvnors” ★★★★★ Sunday Mirror

“a show best described as a staggeringly high-energy explosion… a totally brilliant musical” ★★★★ The Independent

“a pocket-sized production by Donnacadh O’Briain that is rambunctiously funny, darkly disturbing and stealthily moving… scarcely puts a foot wrong” ★★★★ The i

NB These are all reviews for the production which ran between the above dates.

Cast & Creative Team

Team:
Design: Signe Beckman
Lighting: Ben Ormerod
Sound: Nick Powell and Mark Cunningham
Producer: Lucy Jackson

Cast: Bella Heesom, Karen French, Ifan Meredith, Saskia Portway
Liam Smith, Richard Pepper, Brett Fancy, Lucy Grattan
Empress Stay, The Beautiful Jewels, Mr Teds, Diego Gabriel Stocco
Ulises Abel Fernandez

PEEP collaborators:
PilotLight, Anatomy, Hal Chambers, Mark Maughan
Marcelo Diaz, Anthony Arblaster, Doug Green, Sabrina Mahfouz
Harriet Stewart,

PEEPAnatomy artists:
Lottie Kixx Angela Edwards Black Sun Drum Corps Calum MacAskill
Emily Nicholl Kimberly Emeny Kit Fryatt Sarah Rice
Claire Ferguson Tom Harlow Daniel Hunt