Jack Absolute Flies Again review – wartime comedy of manners fails to take off - The Guardian

The razor sharp social critique of the original is replaced by nostalgia and strained gags in this toothless transposition of The Rivals

Jack Absolute is the comically duplicitous, arch mischief-maker in Richard Brinsley Sheridans The Rivals which trades, typically, in love, farce, false identities and plenty of 18th-century social sa… [+3800 chars]

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