New musical adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ to premiere at the Leicester Curve

Leicester Curve has confirmed it will premiere a new musical adaptation of the late Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ next year.

Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary and directed by Luke Sheppard, the production will premiere on 17 March 2015 (previews from 7 March), running until 4 April.

Tickets go on sale on Thursday (10 July 2014).

Set in 1980s Leicester, 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.