Townsend Plays 1

Synopsis

Womberang, Bazaar & Rummage, Groping for Words, the Great Celestial Cow, the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4-The Play (Contemporary Dramatists Series)

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)