Townsend Plays 1
by Sue Townsend

Name: Townsend Plays 1
Brand: Sue Townsend
SKU: 9780413702500
Rating: 3.96 (38 reviews)

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Highlights

British Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the insightful and humorous scripts in Townsend Plays 1, highlighting Sue Townsend's talent for capturing societal issues through comedy. Many find the collection enjoyable, with some noting the relevance of her themes even decades later. However, a few voices mention that some comedic elements feel dated compared to contemporaries.

Insightful and humorous scriptsRelevance of themes todayFast deliverySome comedy feels dated

Synopsis

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers

Bazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder, a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their homes to run a jumble sale.

"As a study of agoraphobia, Bazaar and Rummage.

is written with great verve, style and wit."

(Benedict Nightingale); Set in an adult literacy class where the student's fear of ignorance is as much of a handicap as their inability to read, Groping for Words is a "close up of the social scrap-heap, written in a fine vein of comic indignation and giving a voice to people whose lives are mainly spent in queues and waiting rooms."

(Irving Wardle, The Times); Womberang shows free spirit Rita Onions bringing joy and anarchy to the grim waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic.

"A daydream of mastered fear" (New Society)