A Small Family Business review revival sells Ayckbourn short
Olivier, LondonNigel Lindsay hits the right note, but this production lacks the farce that unlocks the pain within Alan Ayckbourn's fable Ayckbourn: 'I've never been a political writer: I'm a social writer'No play of the 1980s pins down better than Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business the essential contradiction of Thatcherism: that a worship of family values sits ill with a sanctification of individual greed. Bu…