When Does "Dead in the Water" (2014) Take Place?
"Dead in the Water" is a comedy historical fiction stage-musical written by Paul Tibbey with Mark Sims first performed August 12th, 2014. So when is "Dead in the Water" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because through songs like the opening number "Is This Being Dead?" it depicts the final days of life and first days of death for Glyndwr Michael, the longtime unknown person whose corpse was used for the real-world British misinformation operation code-named Operation Mincemeat (part of the real-world global conflict World War II), which occurred just after his death in April of 1943 AD.
1943 AD
We know this because through songs like the opening number "Is This Being Dead?" it depicts the final days of life and first days of death for Glyndwr Michael, the longtime unknown person whose corpse was used for the real-world British misinformation operation code-named Operation Mincemeat (part of the real-world global conflict World War II), which occurred just after his death in April of 1943 AD.
There's also the song "Soldiers' Doggerel" in which British and American soldiers are apprehensive about invading Sicily, Italy which happened in the real world on July 9th, 1943 AD. So it must be early July of 1943 AD at this point.
