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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PM on December 12, 2010