A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

, based around the business of the title and dealing with the Thatcherism

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 of the time. It premiered at the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

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 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

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 as part of the celebrations of its author's 70th birthday that day. Its cast included:

• Jack McCraken - Alfred Molina
  Alfred Molina
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• Benedict - Adam Godley
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• Poppy - Rosalind Ayres
  Rosalind Ayres
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• Anita - Joanne Whalley
  Joanne Whalley
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• Cliff - Kenneth Danziger
• Ken - Roy Dotrice
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• Yvonne - Millicent Martin
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• Harriet - Jill Gascoine
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• Desmond - Julian Sands
  Julian Sands
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• Roy - Darren Richardson
• Tina - Moira Quirk
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• Samantha - Fuchsia Sumner
• The five Rivetti brothers - Matthew Wolf

External links

• Major productions of "A Small Family Business"
• Radio 3 adaptation