Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
Author: Sue Townsend
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2014-02-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408176858

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers "Set in the year 2001 where the class system is numbered from one to five and only the upperclasses are allowed to breed, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes is about the births of a perfect but illegal 'class five' baby, and an imperfect 'government' baby bought by a 'class three' mother and exterminated at birth because of her nine toes...compulsive viewing...insanity is served up as commen sense - to sinister effect." Kate Kellaway, Observer

The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women

The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women
Author: Annika Bluhm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135871299

First published in 2003. The Theatre Arts Audition Books offer one hundred speeches from plays of the past twenty-five years, fifty in a volume for men, fifty in a volume for women. Each excerpt is preceded by a note situating the play and the selection. Speeches come from a wide range of plays, including David Mamet's Oleanna, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jim Cartwright's Road, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, as well as plays by Anthony Minghella, Mark Ravenhill, Sue Townsend, Alan Ayckbourn, and others. Annika Bluhm has assembled two sparkling collections of monologues that will challenge and inspire the actor

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
Author: Sue Townsend
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014-02-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472536495

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers "Set in the year 2001 where the class system is numbered from one to five and only the upperclasses are allowed to breed, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes is about the births of a perfect but illegal 'class five' baby, and an imperfect 'government' baby bought by a 'class three' mother and exterminated at birth because of her nine toes...compulsive viewing...insanity is served up as commen sense - to sinister effect." Kate Kellaway, Observer

The Contemporary Monologue: Women

The Contemporary Monologue: Women
Author: Michael Earley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1995-08-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136754539

First published in 1995. This selection of speeches of all types - serious and comic, realist and absurdist - is drawn from contemporary plays by English, American and European playwrights. The editors have set each piece in its context, presenting a useful resource for acting classes, contests, auditions and rehearsals.

Feminist Futures?

Feminist Futures?
Author: G. Harris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-04-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230554946

This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners engaging in lively, cutting-edge debates on critical topics make this essential reading for students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Gender Studies.

As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies
Author: Hattie Naylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350042420

I can still hear them, I hear them in my head all the time. Those songs I sang. But I don't sing them anymore. Alfie keeps hiding Beth's gardening gloves. She's got lots to do and it's just not funny anymore. Why won't he realise that gardening is helping her forget everything? Why can't he see she's still not over her divorce? Why can't he just be nice? Based on a true story of a woman who struck up an unlikely friendship with a wounded crow, As the Crow Flies is a heart-warming story of friendship, healing and kindness from award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor. A funny, moving and timeless story of our endless fascination with birds As the Crow Flies was first produced by Pentabus Theatre Company in March 2017.

True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 14 1⁄4

True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 14 1⁄4
Author: Sue Townsend
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405915153

Discover the brilliantly funny True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts by Sue Townsend, 'the funniest person in the world' - Caitlin Moran, The Times Tuesday May 24th Had a lie in until 6am. Then got out of bed and had a brisk rub down with the pumice stone. I opened the curtains and saw that the sun was shining brightly. (A suspicion is growing in my mind that the BBC is not to be trusted.) Margaret Hilda Roberts is a rather ambitious 14 1⁄4 year old grocer's daughter from Grantham. She can't abide laziness, finds four hours of chemistry homework delightful and believes she is of royal birth - or at least destined for great things. But Margaret knows that good things never come to those who wait . . . These are the secret diary entries of a girl born into an ordinary life, yet who might just go on to become something really rather extraordinary, and she is brilliantly brought vividly to life by bestselling author Sue Townsend, Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. 'Essential reading for Mole followers' Times Educational Supplement 'Wonderfully funny and sharp as knives' Sunday Times

Townsend Plays: 1

Townsend Plays: 1
Author: Sue Townsend
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 147253686X

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)