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The Nutcracker – review

Coliseum, LondonThe Nutcracker may seem like a simple Christmas bauble of a ballet, but as Wayne Eagling's production for English National Ballet demonstrates, it's tricky to stage. Based on the complicated tale by ETA Hoffmann, its plot accommodates a multiplicity of stories and fantasies, which nestle inside each other like Chinese boxes but don't quite connect.Eagling, in his new version, is determined to reduce the number of boxes. Most of the ballet's original framing story concerning the...

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17:06 on December 11 2010

The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum review

The Telegraph — Sugar plums were still on ration when the London Festival Ballet danced its very first Nutcracker back in 1950. English National Ballet (as it is now known) has worn out ... more info
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21:29 on December 12 2010

The Nutcracker – review

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonThe Nutcracker may seem like a simple Christmas bauble of a ballet, but as Wayne Eagling's production for English National Ballet demonstrates, it's trick... more info
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10:03 on December 13 2010

The Nutcracker, ENB, London Coliseum, review

The Telegraph — Wayne Eagling's Nutcracker is a Christmas treat wrapped in confusion. Rating: * * * more info
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