Synopsis

A Small Family Business - Faber Edition

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Alan Ayckbourn

Published by Faber & Faber

Large Mixed Cast
A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed

Jack McCracken is a man of principle in a corrupt world

But not for long

Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information

Jack's integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes

Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax

CAST
M7,F6

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!" ~ 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

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