Jack Absolute Flies Again (Olivier, National Theatre, London)
Rating:
Verdict: Malaprops and mayhem
Richard Bean is back at the National Theatre with a snortingly good, crowd-pleasing comedy to rival his One Man, Two Guvnors, which launched as a global phenomenon.
By coincidence, Corden and son were sitting right in front of me this week and revelled as much as I did in the gloriously nostalgic and daringly irreverent knock-about farce co-written with the actor Oliver Chris (who played the dim toff in the original One Man…) and based on Sheridan’s 18th-century classic The Rivals.
Instead of Regency Bath, however, xo wallet – slotxo-truewallet.co, the action takes place at an RAF base in West Sussex during the Battle of Britain, with our plucky pipe-sucking hero Jack (Laurie Davidson) in hot pursuit of posh girl Lydia Languish (Natalie Simpson) from the resident Women’s Auxiliary Airforce.
Instead of Regency Bath, however, the action takes place at an RAF base in West Sussex during the Battle of Britain
Although once ‘sweet’ on each other, she has since discovered Women’s Lib, and is now sweet on someone else: the base’s axle-greased Yorkshire mechanic Dudley (Kelvin Fletcher).
The real star, though, is perhaps Caroline Quentin as voluptuous dowager Mrs Malaprop who owns the ‘country piles’ which has been requisitioned as an airfield.
Delivering her solecisms with pride and fortitude, she declares herself ‘overcome with emulsion’ and laments that since her husband died she has ‘become a window’.
But perhaps her finest moment comes when she revives her character’s music hall pre-history, singing with a soprano warble while accompanying herself on ukulele.
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