Jack Absolute Flies Again

Sheridan’s classic comedy gets an uproarious Battle of Britain update.

by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris, based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals

Sheridan’s classic comedy of manners The Rivals, is given an uproarious Battle of Britain update by Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Oliver Chris.

Summer 1940 and the Battle of Britain is well under way in the English Channel. The Germans are attacking coastal targets and our RAF boys are engaged in the defence of our shores. After yet another aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his intrepid young 634 Hurricane squadron.

Back on British soil, Jack is shocked to find his old flame, Lydia Languish at the barracks having recently delivered a new MK2 hurricane as part of her WAAF duties. Setting his sights on winning her heart, but with turbulence and hilarity never far away, Jack’s advances quickly turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own terms – ‘we’re all equals now!’

Come join the Miller Theatre as they strap in and get ready to scramble their way through mistaken identities, love triangles, and social conventions in wartime Britain.

Tickets from £12, age 15 and under half price