{"id":860779,"date":"2026-03-30T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:02:21","slug":"multi-award-winning-musical-operation-mincemeat-heads-to-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860779\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat heads to Sheffield!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony Award\u00ae and double Olivier Award\u00ae-winning musical\u00a0<strong>Operation Mincemeat<\/strong>\u00a0makes its debut in Sheffield at the Lyceum theatre from\u00a0<strong>Monday 13 \u2013 Saturday 25 April<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s London\u2019s biggest hit with 88 Five-Star reviews and counting, making it the best-reviewed show in West End history. The production is directed by Olivier Award nominated\u00a0<strong>Robert Hastie,\u00a0<\/strong>former Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres and director of the much-loved\u00a0Standing at the Sky\u2019s Edge.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>Operation Mincemeat<\/strong>, it\u2019s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they\u2019ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Operation-Mincemeat-tour-first-show-credits-Phil-Tragen-4000x2668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26327\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992888417882142;width:684px;height:auto\"\/>Operation Mincemeat (Photo by Phil Tragen)<\/p>\n<p>Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself),\u00a0<strong>Operation Mincemeat<\/strong> tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.\u00a0Bursting at the seams with the kind of chaos you couldn\u2019t invent, the question is: how did a dead body, a fake love letter, and \u2013 of all people \u2013 Ian Fleming come together to wrong-foot Hitler?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Operation-Mincemeat-left-to-right-is-Charlotte-Hanna-Williams-Jamie-Rose-Monk-Sean-Carey-Holly-Sumpt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26329\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4998326079678608;width:678px;height:auto\"\/>Operation Mincemeat (Photo by Phil Tragen)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation Mincemeat\u00a0plays at\u00a0Lyceum Theatre Monday 13 \u2013 Saturday 25 April.\u00a0Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/sheffieldtheatres.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 0&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tony Award\u00ae and double Olivier Award\u00ae-winning musical\u00a0Operation Mincemeat\u00a0makes its debut in Sheffield at the Lyceum theatre from\u00a0Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[220168,220170,748,393,4884,24648,38891,245084,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-860779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-centralnorth","9":"tag-sheffieldtheatres","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lyceum-theatre","14":"tag-operation-mincemeat","15":"tag-robert-hastie","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116319207641292365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}