| A Smal Family Business | |
| Characters: | Ken Desmond Harriet Jack Poppy Cliff Anita Samantha Tina Roy Yvonne Benedict The Rivetti Brothers |
| Premiere: | 21 May 1987 |
| Place: | England |
| Orig Lang: | English |
| Subject: | Greed, corruption |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Web: | http://womaninmind.alanayckbourn.net/index.htm |
| Chronology: | Ayckbourn |
| Last Play: | Woman in Mind (1985) |
| Next Play: | Henceforward... (1987) |
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]
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:
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]