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Jack Absolute Flies Again review

“Strives to be heartfelt but doesn't stick the landing”
Laurie Davidson and Natalie Simpson in Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre. Photo: Brinkhoff Moegenburg
Laurie Davidson and Natalie Simpson in Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre. Photo: Brinkhoff Moegenburg
Entertaining but relentlessly frothy transposition of Sheridan’s comedy to wartime Britain at the NT from writers Richard Bean and Oliver Chris

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