FOURTEEN AGAIN has extended its run for a further week, with seven extra performances, at the newly named THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE in the Lake District’s Bowness-on-Windermere.
FOURTEEN AGAIN will now run from Friday 1 May - Saturday 30 May 2026.
VICTORIA WOOD’s name still packs a punch and writer and lyricist of the global hit Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, TOM MACRAE will bring a whole new generation of fans to her genius music and lyrics, with his book for FOURTEEN AGAIN, creating a new stage show.
The musical FOURTEEN AGAIN begins when Peggy is reunited with Lou at the local Slimming Club, her best friend from school, who she hasn’t seen since they were teenagers. As kids, no two friends were ever funnier or more fun, but here, now, today they are shadows of their younger selves - and a story unfolds of looking back to the future, full of comedy, love and pain, with Victoria’s amazing songs moving the musical fast forward. Casting to be announced.
As Tom says “I wanted to create a show that is genuinely dramatic and surprising, with high stakes and real tension, as well as celebrating Vic’s innate sense of comedy and the warmth of her world, populated with loveable, relatable characters and celebrating friendship. My starting point was The Ballad Of Barry And Freda. The one song that was tricky to place was Litter Bin about a teenage mum abandoning a child in a bin in a multistorey carpark. It was just so sad. How could I introduce that idea into a comedy? And then I had a brainwave – and that brainwave unlocked an idea that the entire show is now built around. Left to my own devices, I don’t know if I ever would have integrated such a tragic element into such an upbeat story. So, thanks Vic, my amazing and inspirational collaborator – I owe you one.”
Victoria Wood’s long-standing friendships, love of the Lake District and close connection to The Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere comes full circle, as the intimate theatre is to be renamed THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE in honour of the much loved and talented star. Her dear friends, the husband-and-wife team, Charlotte Scott and Roger Glossop MBE, who run the theatre could, not have wished for a more joyous name change for their theatre plus a brand-new musical - THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE and FOURTEEN AGAIN.
Website: www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk
