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Alan Ayckbourn
Comedy
Characters: 7 male, 5 female
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England's master of satire is in top form in this comic morality play which was triumphantly presented by the National Theatre of Great Britain. Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integrity. He quickly learns that everyone else involved in the enterprise has a vested interest in maintaining business as usual, rife with dishonesty and deceit.
"One of Alan Ayckbourn's best." -The New York Times "If you demand your fun fast and furious, this is your ticket." - The New York Post "You'll laugh 'till it hurts. Don't miss it!" - WNEW Radio"The laughs never stop. Easily one of the best plays to arrive in this Broadway season." - USA Today
"Ayckbourn has never written more skillfully." -Evening Standard "Brilliant." - Financial Times "The laughs heap up, but by the evening's end our theatre's master craftsman and finest recorder of social nuance has delivered a disturbing morality play."- London Daily News"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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[From Michael Billington's list of his top-ten plays of the twentieth century]
This play offers a devastating assault on the way the entrepreneurial values we were taught to admire in the eighties lead ultimately to fraud, theft, self-deceit, even homicide. It is the modern equivalent of An Inspector Calls - only, being Ayckbourn, far funnier. It argues just as passionately as the work of more overtly political writers that there is such a thing as society.
A Small Family Business, by Alan Ayckbourn, is a riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed, as the family connections of its protagonist fade and rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax.
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- Publication date2011
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