A new production of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ – The Musical is opening at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, coinciding with Adrian’s 50th birthday year.
Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary’s musical of Leicester’s favourite teen has undergone a period of further development since its original production at Leicester’s Curve in 2015, and the new production will open on 26 July, running until 9 September.
Set in 1980s Leicester, Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, follows the daily dramas and misadventures of Adrian’s adolescent life. With dysfunctional parents, ungrateful elders, a growing debt to school bully Barry Kent and an unruly pimple on his chin, life is hard for a misunderstood intellectual who is only 13 ¾.
With an infectious original score, this new adaptation rediscovers this much-loved novel and brings Adrian’s story to life once more.
