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This play contains strong language
Running Time 2 hours 10 minutes, including one interval.
Special Dates
- After Dark : Wed 10 March
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Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall
Mon 8 Mar 2010 – Sat 13 Mar 2010
Main House
Adapted for the stage by Ben Power and Tim Carroll
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Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs are brought to the stage in this gloriously absurd and exuberant hit comedy which has had both audiences and critics in stitches.
High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow Gunner Milligan and his jazz quartet, adrift on the tide of great historic events. Using Spike’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.
Songs include the jazz greats Chattanooga Choo Choo, Ain’t Misbehavin’, In The Mood, Honeysuckle Rose, Kalamazoo and many more.
| Date | Time | Date information |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 8th Mar | 19:00 | |
| Tue 9th Mar | 19:30 | |
| Wed 10th Mar | 19:30 | After Dark |
| Thu 11th Mar | 14:00 | |
| Thu 11th Mar | 19:30 | |
| Fri 12th Mar | 19:30 | |
| Sat 13th Mar | 14:00 | |
| Sat 13th Mar | 19:30 |
“A joyously funny, gloriously ramshackle evening”
The Guardian
“Entertainingly off-beat…Warm-hearted”
The Telegraph
“Gunfire and giggles…Funny and enjoyably chaotic”
Time Out ****
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Comments
jodie schofield from birmingham
This show is really great.. I'm not a Milligan know-it-all so the material was mostly new to me but I may have to read his war memoirs after seeing this adaptation.. Really poignant in parts, and Sholto Morgan playing Spike in his first professional lead is really on the money... Go see it!
Christine Adams from Kings Norton, Birmingham
Went last night and this was a brilliant production. If you get chance, go and see it. The actors are so talented both musically and with their comedic timing and it was hard to believe that this was Sholto Morgan's professional debut. It was funny, witty and entertaining but also gave an insight into how the troops cope during a war. Hope lots more people get chance to see it and remembering Spike Milligan in his younger days this was a very convincing show.
michael wood from kingsnorton, b,ham
started going to the theatre some time ago, and love the rep, and will look forward to spike milligans adolf, last one there was Cabaret, and at malvern, round the horn, fantastic.