Join Adrian Mole on his journey of growing up…
During the course of this year and a quarter, Adrian falls in love, suffers through his parents’ marital problems, and pursues his ambition to be an intellectual and a writer. Pandora, the love of his life, is brainier than Adrian, and her parents are in a higher income class than Adrian’s. Not exactly model parents to begin with, when their marriage breaks down, Adrian’s home life becomes even more chaotic. After his mother runs off with the next-door neighbour, Mr. Lucas, Adrian’s father, George, is temporarily cheered by his relationship with Doreen Slater. Set in the early 1980s, in an unnamed town in the midlands of England, the play portrays the effects on an ordinary working-class family of rising unemployment and cuts to education and medical services that defined the period. It was also a time when ordinary English women were beginning to express a desire for freedom from their traditional domestic roles, shown in the actions of Adrian’s mother and those of Pandora and her mother.
Cygnet Youth Theatre present this version.
CYT is a weekly drama class for 11-18 year olds, held at Cygnet Theatre.
