The West End Wilma Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat unveils the cast for the UK leg of its landmark world tour.
Launching on 16th February 2026 at Lowry in Salford – the venue that first encouraged the writers’ extraordinary debut musical and hosted its first-ever scratch performance in 2017 – a 40-week run will play at theatres nationwide through to 28th November 2026.
Joining the cast are:
- Christian Andrews
- Seán Carey
- Charlotte Hanna-Williams
- Holly Sumpton
- Jamie-Rose Monk
- Katy Ellis
- Georgina Hagen
- Jordan Pearson
- Morgan Phillips
Following the UK leg of the world tour, Operation Mincemeat will travel across four continents, with stops including:
- USA
- Australia
- Canada
- China
- Mexico
- New Zealand
Operation Mincemeat is running simultaneously in London and New York, with the West End production at the Fortune Theatre extended for a seventeenth time through 27th September 2026, and the Broadway production now extended for a fifth time, running through 26th April 2026. It began as a tiny (and tiny-budgeted) production at the London Fringe New Diorama Theatre in 2019. The show quickly gained a devoted following, spurring sold-out runs at venues including Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios. It finally premiered in the West End on 9th May 2023 at the Fortune Theatre, where it won the Olivier and WhatsOnstage Awards® for ‘Best New Musical’, alongside garnering 88 five-star reviews and counting, and has become the ‘Best reviewed show in West End history.’
The decision to write the musical was the last roll of the dice from SpitLip, a quartet of young British creatives after years of performing sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and echoes the journey of Beyond the Fringe from the world-famous quartet Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960, before moving to the Fortune Theatre and later to the Golden in 1962.
What is Operation Mincemeat the Musical about?
In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat in London’s West End – July 2025
OPERATION MINCEMEAT TOUR DATES
Lowry Salford 16 — 28 Feb 2026
Theatre Royal Bath 02 — 14 Mar 2026
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre 17 — 21 Mar 2026
Fareham Live 23 — 28 Mar 2026
New Theatre Oxford 31 Mar — 04 Apr 2026
Alhambra Theatre Bradford 06 — 11 Apr 2026
Lyceum Theatre Sheffield 13 — 25 Apr 2026
Stoke-on-Trent 27 Apr — 02 May 2026
Storyhouse Chester 04 — 09 May 2026
The Alexandra Birmingham 11 — 16 May 2026
Marlowe Theatre Canterbury 19 — 23 May 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton 25 — 30 May 2026
Grand Opera House York 01 — 06 Jun 2026
Milton Keynes Theatre 08 — 13 Jun 2026
New Victoria Theatre Woking 15 — 20 Jun 2026
Newcastle Theatre Royal 22 — 27 Jun 2026
Theatre Royal Plymouth 29 Jun — 04 Jul 2026
Hull New Theatre 06 — 11 Jul 2026
Royal & Derngate Northampton 13 — 18 Jul 2026
Theatre Royal Nottingham 20 Jul — 01 Aug 2026
Congress Theatre Eastbourne 04 — 08 Aug 2026
His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen 11 — 15 Aug 2026
Cliffs Pavilion Southend-on-sea 31 Aug — 05 Sep 2026
Grand Theatre Leeds 07 — 12 Sep 2026
New Theatre Cardiff 15 — 19 Sep 2026
Swansea Grand Theatre 21 — 26 Sep 2026
Wycombe Swan Theatre High Wycombe 28 Sep — 03 Oct 2026
Norwich Theatre Royal 05 — 10 Oct 2026
Orchard Theatre Dartford 12 — 17 Oct 2026
Arts Theatre Cambridge 19 — 24 Oct 2026
Victoria Theatre Halifax 26 — 31 Oct 2026
King’s Theatre Edinburgh 02 — 07 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Glasgow 10 — 14 Nov 2026
Mayflower Theatre Southampton 17 — 21 Nov 2026
The Hawth Crawley 23 — 28 Nov 2026
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