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Playing with honesty
Updated On: 15 May, 2022 09:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Heena Khandelwal
Khurana brothers, Akarsh and Adhaar, bring Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business to the NCPA
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The dark, Thatcherian family comedy was adapted to revolve around a Catholic man and his Punjabi in-laws. Pics/Bipin Kokate
In 1987, British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s play A Small Family Business premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London. It followed the travails of an honest man, whose principles are compromised without his knowledge. The play revolves around morality and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play that year. Film and theatre writer-director Akarsh Khurana stumbled upon it about seven years ago, and liked it instantly.
Cut to 2019: An opportunity arose for a joint collaboration between his theatre company, Akvarious Productions, and the NCPA with the latter keen on a new production for its thousand-seater Tata Theatre. A Small Family Business came to Akarsh’s mind and he shared the drama script with his younger brother, Adhaar. The actor-director came on board immediately.
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