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Alan Ayckbourn - Small Family Business, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Small Family Business

Av Alan Ayckbourn

Del i serien Faber & Faber

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Beskrivning
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 society.' Guardian
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-04-17
  • Mått: 127 x 198 x 11 mm
  • Vikt: 185 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Faber & Faber
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Förlag: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571315703
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Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939. He wrote his first play, The Square Cat, in 1959. Since then, his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Norman Conquests, A Small Family Business, Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love, and Life of Riley. In 2009, he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged, after 37 years in the post. Knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre, he received the 2010 Critics' Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards.

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