A Small Family Business - 2014 - 6/10

Theatre junkies, curtain up!
During the Covid lockdown, the National Theatre began limited airing of stage classics.
Jack McCracken retires from his job, ostensibly to take the helm of his father-in-law’s manufacturing business.
The company, once prosperous, now struggles. An insider is stealing.
As Jack digs, he uncovers fiddles, side deals, blatant appropriation, crimes petty and major.
Human rationalizing of “no one will notice a little bit missing” applies.
From my (admittedly cynical) viewpoint, the moral dilemmas are nether comic nor surprising.
This also is not the funniest Alan Ayckbourn play I have seen, though the actors try their best.