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Well, that''s one down, isn''t it? Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let''s have a crack at that one next, shall we?

Jack McCracken is a man of principle until, moments after taking over his father-in-law''s business, he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, operating a network of racketeering from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest and comic hysteria take over as Jack succumbs.

A Small Family Business premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1987, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

This play offers a devastating assault on the way the entrepreneurial values we were taught to admire in the eighties lead ultimately to fraud, theft, self-deceit, even homicide. It is the modern equivalent of An Inspector Calls only, being Ayckbourn, far funnier. It argues just as passionately as the work of more overtly political writers that there is such a thing as so

A Small Family Business

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 17 April 2014
      ISBN-13 9780571315703
      978-0571315703
      ISBN-10 0571315704
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      Poetry Books by Alan Ayckbourn

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Well, that''s one down, isn''t it? Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let''s have a crack at that one next, shall we?

      Jack McCracken is a man of principle until, moments after taking over his father-in-law''s business, he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, operating a network of racketeering from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest and comic hysteria take over as Jack succumbs.

      A Small Family Business premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1987, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

      This play offers a devastating assault on the way the entrepreneurial values we were taught to admire in the eighties lead ultimately to fraud, theft, self-deceit, even homicide. It is the modern equivalent of An Inspector Calls only, being Ayckbourn, far funnier. It argues just as passionately as the work of more overtly political writers that there is such a thing as so

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