A man called Chamberlain who did Prime Minister impressions spoke on the wireless; he said, “As from eleven o’clock we are at war with Germany”. (I loved the ‘we’).
“War?” said Mother.
“It must be something we said,” said Father...
Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs are finally brought to the stage. This Everyman’s odyssey, with a cast of extraordinary characters, charts Gunner Milligan’s progress through World War Two – 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 adrift on the tide of great historic events. Using Milligan’s own words, the story joyously fuses comedy, jazz, song and dance – showing how humour, music and comradeship enabled a hapless bunch of young men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War machine.

The play features a talented cast of seven actors and musicians, including newcomer Sholto Morgan as Spike.