A Small Family Business
| A Small Family Business | |||
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| Written by | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
| Characters |
Ken Desmond Harriet Jack Poppy Cliff Anita Samantha Tina Roy Yvonne Benedict The Rivetti Brothers | ||
| Date premiered | 21 May 1987 | ||
| Place premiered | England | ||
| Original language | English | ||
| Subject | Greed, corruption | ||
| Genre | Drama | ||
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A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn about the eponymous business and dealing with the Thatcherism of the time. It premiered at the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre on 20 May 1987, where it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for that year. Its Broadway premiere occurred on 27 April 1992.
Radio adaptation
A radio adaptation directed by Martin Jarvis was broadcast at 8 p.m. on Sunday 12 April 2009 on BBC Radio 3 as part of the celebrations of its author's 70th birthday that day. Its cast included:
- Jack McCraken – Alfred Molina
- Benedict – Adam Godley
- Poppy – Rosalind Ayres
- Anita – Joanne Whalley
- Cliff – Kenneth Danziger
- Ken – Roy Dotrice
- Yvonne – Millicent Martin
- Harriet – Jill Gascoine
- Desmond – Julian Sands
- Roy – Darren Richardson
- Tina – Moira Quirk
- Samantha – Fuchsia Sumner
- The five Rivetti brothers – Matthew Wolf
External links
- Major productions of A Small Family Business
- Radio 3 adaptation