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A Small Family Business

Play by Alan Ayckbourn

A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn about the eponymous business and dealing with the Thatcherism of the time.[1] 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.[2][3] Its Broadway premiere occurred on 27 April 1992.[4]

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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.[5] Its cast included:

Reception

In 2000, The Telegraph's Charles Spencer praised A Small Family Business as one of the "finest British plays of recent years" along with Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993).[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Billington, Michael (9 April 2014). "A Small Family Business review – revival sells Ayckbourn short". The Guardian.
  2. [2]
    "A Small Family Business | Samuel French". samuelfrench.com.
  3. [3]
    "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1980–2003". Evening Standard. London. 29 October 2003.
  4. [4]
    "A Small Family Business – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB". ibdb.com.
  5. [5]
    "BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3, A Small Family Business". BBC.
  6. [6]
    Spencer, Charles (17 May 2000). "A stripped-down comedy that's no laughing matter". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2020.


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