 The 2017 London production of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾" at the Menier Chocolate Factory received 5 stars from "The Evening Standard", "The Independent" and "Whatsonstage.com", with 4 star reviews from "The Daily Telegraph", "The Times" and "The Guardian".Michael Billington in "The Guardian" described it as "A fresh and funny show from the young songwriting team of Jake Brunger (book and lyrics) and Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics).They clearly have the potential to inject new life into the anaemic British musical", with Fiona Mountford in "The Evening Standard" calling it "a perfectly realised new British musical".