{"product_id":"9780413702500-townsend-plays-1","title":"Townsend Plays: 1","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow\u003cbr\u003eA collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including \"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole\" adapted from the novel, \"Wombergang\", set in the waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic, \"Bazaar \u0026amp; Rummage\" about a community jumble sale, \"Groping for Words\", and \"The Great Celestial Cow\", about Indian immigrants.\u003cbr\u003eA 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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57300698562934,"sku":"9780413702500","price":23.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_13449391_31316_20250507071612.jpg?v=1771224061","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780413702500-townsend-plays-1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}