The Bruton Players present:
Bazaar & Rummage
by Sue Townsend

The Bruton Players have had many successes over the years - Robinson Crusoe, Beauty and the Beast and The Sleeping Beauty to name but a few. The most recent of these however was Bazaar and Rummage, by Sue Townsend.

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester and went to Glen Hills Primary school where the school secretary was called Mrs Claricotes, a name she used for the school secretary in the Adrian Mole books.

She left school at fifteen and worked in a variety of jobs until she finally trained as a community worker.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole was reputedly based on her children's experiences at Mary Linwood Comprehensive School in Leicester. Townsend has suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001.

In September 2009, she received a kidney from her son Sean after a 2 year wait for a donor.