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Sue Townsend

SUE TOWNSEND

  (1946 - 2014)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Sayle Screen Ltd  

Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, FRSL (2 April 1946  10 April 2014) was an English novelist and playwright. Sue, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved worldwide success after the publication of her best-known work, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, in 1982.

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below is a list of Sue Townsend's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Are You Sitting. . .         Bazaar and Rummage         Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults         Clients         Dayroom         Disneyland It Ain't         Ear, Nose And Throat         Ghost Of Daniel Lambert, The         Great Celestial Cow, The         Groping for Words         In the Club and Up the Spout         Queen and I, The         Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The         Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes         Womberang         You, Me and Wii

Are You Sitting. . .

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Bazaar and Rummage

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Gwenda, an ex-agoraphobic, leads a self-help group of three who have been unable to leave their homes for a variety of reasons. She forces them to help at a local bazaar, enlisting the support of Miss, a trainee social-worker. While sorting through the rummage their individual fears erupt but calm is restored by the ever-sensible Fliss. As they leave the hall it is apparent their agoraphobia is not cured but they have made the effort.

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Comedy

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Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults

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Leicester    1982

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Clients

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF    1983

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Dayroom

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF    1981

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Disneyland It Ain't

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A dying child acts as a focus for others rage and fear

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Ear, Nose And Throat

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Tyne - Newcastle    1988

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Ghost Of Daniel Lambert, The

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the play is set in the years 1809 through to 1981 telling the story of a famous Leicester character by the name of Daniel Lambert who weighed 52 stone and 4 pounds.

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Notes: Directed by Chris Martin. Principal roles played by Edward Clayton, Perry Cree, Alan David And Roberta Kerr. Music by Rick Lloyd

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musical Drama

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Great Celestial Cow, The

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concerned with questions of community and of growth through sharing experiences within the Asian community

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Leicester    1984

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Joint Stock

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Groping for Words

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Illiteracy problems studied from the class perspective

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aka Are You Sitting Comfortably?

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF    1983

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In the Club and Up the Spout

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on tour    1979

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Queen and I, The

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the Queen and her family are deposed by a new Republican Government and allocated housing on a Leicester Council estate

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music & lyrics Mickey Gallagher And Ian Dury

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Play with songs Play with Music

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Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The

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comedy of adolescent manners follows the efforts of a spotty teenager to make sense of adults

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songs by Ken Howard And Alan Blaikley

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Leicester: Phoenix    1984

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Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
set in a future Britain where only the upper strata of society are allowed to reproduce and all children must be perfect specimens if they are to live.

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Library Theatre, Manchester    1989

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Methuen Drama    978-0413617606

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tragi comedy Play/Drama

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Womberang

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the institutionalising power of hospitals

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aka the Waiting Room

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London    1980

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You, Me and Wii

You, Me and Wii
In a council house in a small Leicestershire town, Vincent's skiing on the Wii, Sheila's feeding her granddaughter McKenzie, and Kerry's getting on with the ironing. None of them are planning on voting in the election, but when Selina Snow rings the doorbell to canvas, perhaps she can change their minds, or they can change hers.

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part of Women, Power & Politics: Now

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Short play

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