Sell-out psychedelic musical heading for Swindon

Rock musical Operation Julie: The Musical comes to the Wyvern Theatre from 9-11 May.

The show takes its name from one of the most notorious drug cases of the 1970s.
In March 1977, news broke of an undercover police operation, Operation Julie, in West Wales, which led to what was described as the greatest drug bust in history.
A colossal police investigation involving 11 police forces resulted in more than 100 arrests across Europe, over a century of jail time and the discovery of over £500m-worth of the hallucinogen LSD.
The operation took out almost 60 percent of the world’s LSD supply in the middle of its 70s heyday.
The musical tells the story of the operation and the hippies who settled in West Wales in the mid-70s, searching for a new way of living fuelled by acid and alternative attitude.
Among the main protagonists are roguish dealer Alston ‘Smiles’ Hughes, based in Llanddewi Brefi, and Christine Bott and Richard Kemp, who found a way of making the purest LSD ever known.
Ticket information can be found at theatr-nanog.co.uk/operation-julie