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In Good Company
Crazy Coqs
In a series of conversations and songs to celebrate some of the fellow performers and creatives she’s had the pleasure of working with over her 44-year career in theatre, Ria Jones hosts an intimate evening ‘In Good Company’. Promising a memorable and thoroughly enjoyable show filled with stories and shared experiences in showbusiness over a career as diverse as playing Norma Desmond, Eva Peron and Grizabella to Miss Adelaide, Reno Sweeney and Mrs Overall.
Sunday 18th October, 7:30pm
Joining Ria for the last show in this year’s In Good Company series is her dearest friend Sally Ann Triplett. Ria first worked with Sally aged 16 in the musical Godspell and also in her West End debut, the hit musical Chess. Recently they both starred together in the critically acclaimed musical Fourteen Again with songs by Victoria Wood and book by Tom MacRae (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie). Ria and Sally share a strong connection with Victoria Wood, having both starred and worked with her on Acorn Antiques The Musical.
This show shouldn’t be missed- it’s very rare these two leading ladies join forces to share stories and songs from their illustrious careers, each chalking up over 40 years in the business.
Fourteen Again
Menier Chocolate Factory
21st November 2026 - 27th February 2027
“If you could do it all again… what would you do?”
Peggy is recently divorced and lost in life, when a chance meeting with her long-lost childhood best friend, Lou, forces her to think about the trials and triumphs of their teenage years together. But thought soon becomes reality when Peggy wakes up to find that she is literally Fourteen Again, Peggy must fix the mistakes of her past to get back her present – but which mistakes?
Featuring much-loved songs by Victoria Wood, and a brilliant book by Tom MacRae (writer of West End smash hit Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) FOURTEEN AGAIN is a dramatic comedy full of twists and turns, tears and joy, that will send you home singing and (we guarantee) laughing!
A sell-out success for its world premier at the Victoria Wood Theatre in Bowness-on-Windemere, starring Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett, directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, FOURTEEN AGAIN opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory on 2 December, with previews from 21 November, and runs until 27 February.
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Recent Reviews
Fourteen Again
Victoria Wood Theatre, May-June 2026
****
The Stage
****
The Guardian
****
The Telegraph
"Indeed, Triplett and Jones dominate the stage with exactly the sort of dynamic and affectionate bonding that Wood and Walters had themselves."
Musical Theatre Review
"Triplett and Jones (who hilariously plays all the female parts) have a particular rapport; you believe in their friendship and in their affection for one another. By the time they pull on tap shoes in a final celebratory rendition of “The Ballad of Barry and Freda”, where Barry’s longing to read his catalogue on vinyl flooring conflicts with Freda’s desperate entreaties that he “bend me over backwards on my hostess trolley”, their sentimental journey to happiness has become entirely captivating.
What's OnStage
Acorn Antiques the Musical
Manchester Opera House
& Shaftesbury Theatre 2025
"From the Brummie accent, to the wobbly voice tinged with a posh undertone every now and then, to the signature walk, smiles to the audience, and the perfectly timed mistiming she is famous for, this was nothing short of perfect! This is a character known and adored by the nation and she was more than safe in Ria Jones’ rubber gloved hands, she positively thrived."
London Theatres
"There is no laugh not taken, no gurn ungurned and no missed cue nothing less than immaculately timed. That the woman who was the youngest actress to play Eva Peron and who originated the role of Norma Desmond can sing is no surprise. However, it is her exquisite sense of rhythm and comic timing in the showstopping song Macaroons! that generates more laughs than even the great Julie Walters managed."
The Recs