Ha Ha Hitler! - The Great-ish Escape

Synopsis

The Most Hilarious Wartime Story Never Told. From the people who brought you "Ha Ha Hamlet!" a spin on "The Great Escape". It's 1942, German occupied France. Three hopeless RAF pilots plan an escape from the infamous stronghold Chateau Plonke. Under the watchful eye of General Von Schnitzershitz, Tom, Dick and Hilary take you on an unforgettable journey of ridiculous Luftwaffe laughter with a plot thicker than Hitler's moustache. What do German Generals get up to behind closed doors? Will Tommy find romance with French beauty Sophie Ce Soir? How will our heroes disguise themselves? And how important is the Enigma Machine code book to the outcome of the world's most talked about war?

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 31 October 2009

It’s anarchy. Very British theatrical anarchy. Think a touch of audience participation (in the best – or worse – pantomime tradition, a measure of in-your-face stand-up comedy routine, add those perennial satire subjects – people who have the misfortune to be native to the far side of the English Channel – then stir in a drop of two of heroic war hero movies.

No. it’s not or one of its siblings. It’s Ha Ha Hitler from the team which took the mickey out of Hamlet and has Sherlock Homes in its sights. The show’s subtitle is The Great(ish) Escape and it’s extremely clever in the way it both manipulates its audience’s preconceptions and subverts them. Of course the Gestapo was terrifying and evil; of course French civilians were killed sometimes for no reason at all; of course POWs paid the price of failed escapes; of course ordinary people died in bombing raids. The trick is to make this subtext lie dormant, just protruding when you lea...

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