text: “A Small Family Business” had its World Premiere in London in 1987, winning the Evening Standard award for Best Play. It later opened in New York in 1992.
  Synopsis: Jack McCracken has a great opportunity. He is to take over as Managing Director of the family furniture business.
  Jack, honest & upright, intends to improve efficiency but rapidly uncovers wholesale fraud, theft & deceit both in the firm & amongst his family.
  As a result of his daughter’s actions, he almost at once has to succumb to blackmail & this is only the first of a series of moral compromises that he will have to make.
  CODS produced this show in October 2013. A complicated set ensured that the action flowed rapidly from one scene to the other at breakneck speed! As ever with Alan Ayckbourn productions, it was very well received.