A Small Family Business

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"A Small Family Business"
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
Official site
Ayckbourn plays chronology
Woman in Mind (1985) A Small Family Business (1987) Henceforward... (1987)

A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn, based around the business of the title 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 8pm 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

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