London Coliseum Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly production English National Ballet's brand new production of the Nutcracker vastly improves on its previous version. It doesn't come with a gimmick or drastic reinterpretation, only the sense that artistic director Aaron S Watkin has rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM on December 15, 2024