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The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary review

“Joyfully silly”
Stephen Cavanagh in The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary. Photo: Tanya Pabaru
Stephen Cavanagh in The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary. Photo: Tanya Pabaru
Author John Nicholson and director Kirstie Davis’ comic reworking of Gustave Flaubert’s novel of romanticism and middle-class morals is overstretched but cheerfully daft

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