{"product_id":"9780571315703-a-small-family-business","title":"A Small Family Business","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWell, 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWell, that's one down, isn't it? Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet's have a crack at that one next, shall we?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Small Family Business\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1987, and won the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Best Play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.\u003cb\u003e It is the modern equivalent of \u003ci\u003eAn Inspector Calls\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943268003937,"sku":"9780571315703","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36342961_d9f857b8-471b-4b77-8417-67f0c4b86707.jpg?v=1759430918","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571315703-a-small-family-business","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}