Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes by Sue Townsend

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes by Sue Townsend

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

First staged at the Library Theatre, Manchester, in November 1989, this tragi-comedy is 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. The author also wrote "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole".

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes by Sue Townsend

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
Sue Townend (1946-2014) was a playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Her plays include Womberang (Soho Poly, Lodnon, 1979); Dayroom (Croydon Warehouse Theatre, 1981); The Ghosts of Daniel Lambert (Liecester Phoenix, 1981); Bazaar & Rummage (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1982, BBC Television, 1983); Groping for Words (Cryodon Warehouse, 1983); The Great Celestial Cow (The Joint Stock COmpany, 1984); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - The Play (Leicester Phoenix, 1984); Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (Library Theatre, Manchester, 1989) and The Queen and I - The Play (Royal Court, London, 1994). Her other published work includes the diaries of Adrian Mole. In addition she has written novels including Rebuilding Coventry (1988), The Queen and I (1992) and Ghost Children (2002).
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780413617606
ISBN 10 0413617602
Title Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
Author Sue Townsend
Series Modern Plays
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1990-12-10
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.