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”A Family Affair,” on view through Nov. 18 at 3829 N. Broadway, is one of those surprise treats that Chicago`s small off-Loop theaters are capable of producing every once in a while.
The production, proudly described by the Strawdog Theatre Company as an American premiere, is the work of Alexander Ostrovsky, the upstart dramatist who wrote the comedy in 1849 as a satire of the grasping merchant middle class of Czarist Russia. Newly adapted by English writer Nick Dear, its study of a group of avaricious characters on the make is amazingly apt for 20th Century America; and its production, though presented in a tiny second-floor auditorium with limited resources, is played with vigor and wit by its non-Equity cast.
