Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

Synopsis

This epic Everyman’s odyssey through World War Two, with a cast of extraordinary characters, charts Gunner Milligan’s progress from joining the Royal Artillery through the North African and Italian campaigns. And with Spike’s sense of lunacy, anything can happen along the way! High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow him and his ad hoc jazz quartet - complete with their famed comedy routines - adrift on the tide of great historic events. Using Milligan’s own words, the story is told through a joyous fusion of comedy, jazz, song and dance - showing how humour, music and comradeship enabled a hapless and disparate bunch of young men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War Machine. Caution: Contains barrack room humour!

Our Review:

12 March 2010

As neither a die-hard fan of Spike Milligan, nor with any personal connection with the times or happenings of World War Two it is, on the surface, hard to find a connection with the driving forces of this adaptation of Milligan’s memoirs by Ben Power and Tim Carrol. However, this is not to say that there not enough within this witty performance in order to keep the ignorant entertained with its content.

In fact, the adaptation embodies what I know Milligan’s humor to be; off the wall and sometimes random. In a structure that is based around a series of sketches performed for us ‘troops’ we are given snippets of Spike as a youthful soldier injected with his signature whacky jokes and physical comedy. The montage of scenes is often humorous and entertaining, if not a little confusing in its fast paced switching between locations and characters.

The glances of happenings are aided by musical contributions by the entire ensemble; each member being able to play a different instrum...

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