Small Family Business, A
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 7M, 6F
- ISBN: 9780573016691
"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
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage
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.
REVIEWS:
"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."
The Evening Standard
"Brilliant."
Financial Times
"The laughs head 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
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 6F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: It's the author's intention that the RIVETTI BROTHERS be played by the same actor.
POPPY - his wife
KEN AYRES - his father-in-law
TINA - his elder daughter
ROY RUSTON - Tina's husband
SAMANTHA - his younger daughter
CLIFF - his brother
ANITA - Cliff's wife
DESMOND - his brother-in-law
HARRIET - Desmond's wife
YVONNE DOGGETT - Harriet's sister
BENEDICT HOUGH - a private investigator
LOTARIO RIVETTI - an Italian business man
UBERTO RIVETTI - an Italian business man
ORLANDO RIVETTI - an Italian business man
VINCENZO RIVETTI - an Italian business man
GIORGIO RIVETTI - an Italian business man
Available Material
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