• Nutcracker review – a radically reimagined warm embrace of a show

    Nutcracker review – a radically reimagined warm embrace of a show
    Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Royal Festival Hall, London
    Starring Action Man and a boy called Clive, Drew McOnie’s immersive cabaret version of the festive ballet is up there with reinventions by Mark Morris and Matthew BourneBah humbug. It’s Nutcracker season. For some people, the onset of Christmas is marked by the John Lewis advertisement or the straggly tree that goes up on the high street. For balletgoers, it’s the sudden rash of sugar-coated productions that appear on stage.The N

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