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Article: Wartime comedy is right on target; THEATRE Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall/Playhouse.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: LAURA DAVIS
TO SPIKE MILLIGAN, the Second World War seemed "a strange kind of chaos". And that was how he chose to write about it, in a collection of memoirs that were a mixture of fact and fiction but always unmistakably potty.
The stage version of Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall is based on the first four, charting his Army experience from conscription to finding himself in hospital with "battle fatigue".
His story is told through a series of songs, comic sketches and monologues linked together within the framework of a barracks talent evening.
It's as apparently undisciplined as the books but, like them, weaves a ...