Hitler my part in his downfall6/1/2023 ![]() Accused of joining his unit three months late in 1940, he announces: "I'll make up for it – I'll fight nights, as well." Eventually, he sees action in north Africa and Italy, is promoted to lance bombardier, and then stripped of his rank and winds up in a psychiatric hospital. But the show also charts the zigzag progress of Milligan's mad war. The evening takes the baggy form of a concert party: a mix of songs, sketches, reminiscences and jazz from the D Battery Quartet Spike created in 1940 from his Royal Artillery Regiment. ![]() And the result is a joyously funny, gloriously ramshackle evening that reminds us that the war was the matrix of Milligan's comic imagination: out of its chaos and absurdity came the Goon Show, which was the ultimate revenge of the ordinary soldier on the officer class. But this adaptation by Ben Power and Tim Carroll is the first attempt to put his four books of military memoirs on stage. W e recently had a play about Spike Milligan's nervous breakdowns. ![]()
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