Deckchairs 4

"This is Jean McConnell's fourth volume of Deckchairs plays, each with a cast of two women and requiring only a simple setting. Two are comedies, two dramas, and all display Jean McConnell's keen-eyed view of human nature and of the foibles and fancies of women in particular. In Garden Pests, two keen gardeners meet in a magnificent garden from which neither intends to go home empty-handed. Grannies introduces us to Jenny, reluctantly looking after her teenage daughter's baby, and to Barbara, whose desperate love for her grandchild has led her into a very strange situation. Outdoor Pleasures…