SUE TOWNSEND'S

GROPING FOR WORDS

England, 1983: Three million unemployed. Two million of them are illiterate.

And they think 'The Sun' is the people's paper.

A comedy of class and education - we've all got to learn.

"A close-up of the social scrapheap, written in a fine vein of comic indignation" The Times

"Set in an evening institute, Sue Townsend's thought-provoking play is about adult literacy...Although the play erupts with jokes on both bourgeois philanthropy and aspiring scholarship, it has a tough core" City Limits

"A powerful play...Townsend examines this terror of social judgement as a means of keeping the working-class in its place" New Society