
It is July 1940, and after an aerial dogfight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. But back on the sunlit lawns of Malaprop Hall, a stately home requisitioned by the RAF, the young heiress demands to be loved on her own very particular terms, and Jack's romantic advances quickly descend into farcical chaos. Richard Bean and Oliver Chris's riotous comedy transplants Sheridan's 1775 classic The Rivals into the world of Battle of Britain fighter pilots.