Methuen Drama, 1996

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (6), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...In Sue Townsend’s heartfelt comedy, three severely agoraphobic women have left their houses for the first time in years, and made it to a jumble sale. The sale has been organised by their social workers, the young trainee Fliss...

Methuen Drama, 1996

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Groping for Words is a warm comedy about an adult literacy evening class run by the middle-aged and well-meaning Joyce. She knows that teaching adult literacy requires tact and respect – unfortunately the only room that was free for her...

Methuen Drama, 1990

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A story of motherhood set in a totalitarian society where children must be perfect specimens if they are to be allowed to live. Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes is caught between laughter and despair: a passionate, comic, alarming play...

Methuen Drama, 1990

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (41), Female (25), Male (15), Unassigned (1)

...Comic, moving and feminist, The Great Celestial Cow is a play about Asian women in England, who have moved to a cold grey city where they are expected to be silent. When Sita and her children Prem and Bibi leave India...

Methuen Drama, 1996

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (6), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Sue Townsend's adaptation of her internationally best-selling book makes for a lively play about a splendidly comic and instantly recognisable adolescent. In his secret diary, Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every...

Methuen Drama, 1996

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (10), Female (8), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Sue Townsend delights in smashing the grim silence of the hospital waiting room in a charming and comic short play, as Rita whirls into a drab gynaecology clinic and smokes, rearranges the furniture and frightens away the clerk...