2025 Monthly Challenge: December

The big West End finish to celebrate the completion of the challenge didn’t happen. Partly because we never actually got round to sorting it, and partly because we were invited by a former student I used to teach to see her college performance.

So, December’s outing, the last of the years, went something like this:

Production: Oklahoma!

Venue: Platform Theatre

It was a sold out show on the last night of the City College Production. Considering the production was put on by first and second year musical theatre students, it was an entertaining evening.

Having no clue about the plot of Oklahoma! – except for a google on the way in the car – it turns out it’s a very simple story about a farm girl and her courtship by two rival suitors. It also turns out, we knew a lot of the songs!!

Goes in at number 7:

  1. An Inspector Calls
  2. Dracula
  3. Things We Do For Love
  4. Jekyll & Hyde
  5. Charley’s Aunt
  6. 1984
  7. Oklahoma!
  8. Norwich Spooky Walk
  9. The Long Drop
  10. Metamorphosis
  11. Shakespeare Revisited
  12. Edgeland

One year. 12 productions. 12 venues. Done.

Book 29 of 2025

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

The only reason I read this book was because an extract of it was used in the Language Paper 1 last summer.

I was interested to see what it was all about.

It turns out the novel is about a village in which all the women of child-bearing age become mysteriously pregnant.

The children all end up to grow at an accelerated rate and have telepathic abilities.

I quite like the concept of the book, it is seen as a classic piece of science fiction, I just didn’t really like it that much.

I was slightly disappointed by the ending…