THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE 13 3/4 Menier Chocolate Factory

Sue Townsend’s modern comic classic, was published in 1982 and sold 20 million copies. The diary records the aspirations of a priggish, naive, misunderstood adolescent, one of the great under-achievers, who lives on a suburban house estate in Leicester and has acne trouble, parent trouble, school trouble and girlfriend trouble. “I have a problem,” he says. “I am an intellectual but at the same time I am not very clever.” The musical gets a lively and enjoyable production from Luke Sheppard and his choreographer, Rebecca Howell. Benjamin Lewis is very funny as Mole.