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The Line Of Beauty is faultlessly acted and elegantly staged, with echoes of Saltburn. But it's strangely soulless, says theatre critic Patrick Marmion

The Line Of Beauty is faultlessly acted and elegantly staged, with echoes of Saltburn. But it's strangely soulless, says theatre critic Patrick Marmion

Our hero Nick Guest is played as a charmingly evasive aesthete by Jasper Talbot. His name suggests he might be a social interloper and he duly ingratiates himself into the Fedden clan.

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