Townsend Plays 1

Womberang & Bazaar and Rummage & Groping for Words & The Great Celestial Cow & The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

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