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A Small Family Business
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In an ordinary suburban house, an ordinary family gathers to celebrate Jack taking over the family furniture business. The interruption by a private investigator trying to arrest his young teenage daughter for shoplifting is Jack's first indication that nothing is what it seems and everyone is using the family business to their own - illegal - ends: his wife resents their lack of creature comforts; his brother is turning a blind eye to the sexual antics of his wife, she is sleeping her way through the black marketeer Rivetti brothers, and her brother is feathering his own nest. As the events of the week gather pace, watch Jack's transformation from innocent abroad to disillusioned wheeler-dealer. Will he succeed, against all the odds, in putting the business back together as a small, decent, honest family concern...First performed at the National Theatre, this hilarious morality play won the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Play in 1987.
| Author | Alan Ayckbourn |
Production details
Special Performances
- 2 Oct 07 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
- 13 Oct 07 Audio Described
