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** In June, I caught both encore screenings of NTlive´s Frankenstein. To keep it short: Jonny Lee Miller was a loud-mouthed and angry Frankenstein, Benedict Cumberbatch was a giddy ditto. Both ruled as the Creature, in their own creepy ways. As a whole, I prefer the Miller!Creature version, because Cumberbatch has a much better stage voice. In fact, I think I heard less than half of Miller´s lines!

** In July I went on holiday to York and Oxford. One of the last days, I went to *cough*London*cough* and bought a day ticket to the Sweeney Todd production at Adelphi. The cast led by Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball were made of pure win, but seriously, Adelphi theatre, send your rude ushers to charm school, will you?! I was turning my phone OFF, you inbred sow!

** In August I went back to London, just for a weekend, to catch Peter Jöback as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera. Half of my colleagues probably thought I´d completely lost my marbles, spending so much money on such a short time. But yes, it was so worth the money! I´m still on the fence about Jöback´s Phantom, but Killian Donnelly was cute as a button as Raoul, if you can call a grown man ”cute”. Oh well, he´ll never read this!

** In November, I spent my 35th birthday in London. After saving up for two years, I finally bought my Mulberry East West Bayswater bag. I felt like a fish out of water, going into their super posh store at Westfield. And – of course – I got a ticket to go see Les Mis. In seat A36 in the dress circle. Yup, a really good birthday!

** Two days later, I queued for two hours for a day ticket to War Horse. It was freezing cold and an Aussie thought I was flirting with him (I wasn´t, I just hadn´t had coffee yet…). In the end it was so worth it, cause War Horse must be one of the most awesome shows ever. The horses are super cool, but I think the angry goose was my favourite! My seat was in front row, almost centre front. In one scene, the actors was sitting on the stage edge, less than a metre away. Unfortunately one of them was holding a rifle, and when he was getting up, he slipped and for a moment the butt of the rifle was waaay too close for comfort! But, as a certain theatre blogger always says: ”hey, nobody died!”

EDIT: If you have £1200 to spare, you can buy a replica of the goose in the theatre shop… I want it! I want it so badly! No, I have no idea where I´d store it, or display it, but still… gimme!!! *grabby hands*