Operation Mincemeat adds extra 2027 tour dates

Operation Mincemeat has extended its current UK and Ireland tour.

The WhatsOnStage, Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical has announced a further 34,000 tickets following weeks of sold-out shows.

Telling the true story of the Second World War operation in which British intelligence used a corpse carrying false documents to mislead Nazi Germany about the Allied invasion of Sicily, the musical began at the 77-seat New Diorama Theatre in 2019 before transferring to Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios. It opened in the West End in May 2023 at the Fortune Theatre, where it continues, while also running on Broadway.

The musical comedy is written by SpitLip, comprising  David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, and directed by Robert Hastie.

In 2027, the tour will play an additional week in Salford (11 to 29 May) and Birmingham (24 August to 4 September) and will return to Plymouth (4 to 8 May).

Starring in the run are Seán Carey and Morgan Phillips (as Charles Cholmondoley and others), Katy Ellis (as Ewen Montagu, Jean Leslie and others), Georgina Hagen and Jamie-Rose Monk (as Johnny Bevan and others), Charlotte Hanna-Williams (as Jean Leslie and others), Christian Andrews and Jordan Pearson (as Hester Leggatt and others), and Holly Sumpton (as Ewen Montagu and others).

The second leg of the tour commences in Dartford on 23 February and will run for 39 weeks. Tour dates can be found below.

The 2027 tour dates are: Dartford’s Orchard Theatre (23 to 27 February), Milton Keynes Theatre (2 to 6 March), Bath Theatre Royal (9 to 20 March), Cheltenham Everyman Theatre (23 to 27 March), Sunderland Empire Theatre (6 to 10 April), Darlington Hippodrome (20 to 24 April), Brighton, Theatre Royal (27 April to 1 May), Plymouth Theatre Royal (4 to 8 May) the Lowry in Salford (11 to 29 May), Truro, Hall for Cornwall (1 to 5 June), Portsmouth Kings Theatre (8 to 12 June), Blackpool’s Grand Theatre (15 to 19 June), Inverness Eden Court (22 to 26 June), Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre (29 June to 3 July), Glasgow Theatre Royal (6 to 10 July), Oxford New Theatre (13 to 17 July), Aylesbury, Waterside Theatre (20 to 24 July), Nottingham Theatre Royal (27 to 31 July), Leeds Grand Theatre (3 to 7 August), Belfast Grand Opera House (10 to 14 August), Dublin (17 to 21 August, venue to be confirmed), Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre (24 to 4 September), Cardiff New Theatre (14 to 18 September), Woking Theatre (21 to 25 September), York’s Grand Opera House (28 September to 2 October), Liverpool Empire (5 to 9 October), Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre (12 to 16 October), Leicester’s Curve, (19 to 23 October), Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre (26 to 30 October), Cambridge’s Arts Theatre (2 to 6 November), Bradford Alhambra Theatre (9 to 13 November), and Southampton Mayflower Theatre (16 to 20 November).