A Lake District theater is to be named for comedian and playwright Victoria Wood and will stage a new musical using her songs to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.
the Old washing theater run by tree friends, couple Charlotte Scott and Roger Glossop. Wood, who died of cancer aged 62 in 2016, was a trustee of the Boweness-on-Windermere theater in 2008. Scott was also drawn to Sheffield in Sheffield in 1978.
The old laundry shares a building with the world of Beatrix Potter attraction, which was officially opened in wood, based on the diaries of a woman from barrow-in-furness during the Second World War.
Wood wrote the plays talent and good pleasure (1980) before becoming a household name and one of the favorite songs and actors including actors Julie Imrie on television. If the old laundry becomes a theater in Victoria Next year will come a new musical, fourteen again, with numbers with a salary of songs. The music has a book by Tom Macrae, the writer and lyricist of everything Jamie says. Macrae worked with wood in his 2015 version of the children’s book fungus bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, with wood in one of his last TV roles.
Fourteen again run from 1 May and there is a night to celebrate Wood’s birthday, 19 May. The Victorian theater will be one of the few Playhouses in the country named after a creative woman. In 2018 the New London Theater in West Earth was named the Gillian Lynne Theater in honor of the cat choreographers.
Two years ago, a new gaming prize dedicated to comedy was launched in honor of the tree on what would have been his 70th birthday. The Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize Prize was conceived in association with the Foundtoria Wood Foundation, whose donors include Scott. the Inaugural AwardSupported by the BBC comedy, went to Eugene O’Hare in 2024 for his Play Portugal.