THIS cunningly updated Nutcracker – choreographed by Ashley Page, designed by Antony McDonald and premiered in 2003 – was the beginning of an era that saw Scottish Ballet find its feet again.
Out went any hint of sugary-sweet dancing bon-bons, out went the 19th-century period style that made Hoffmann's original into a Dickens of a tale. In their stead, Page and McDonald conjured the heyday of the Weimar Republic – the Stahlbaums's Christmas party is a frisky-risque affair – and retrieved the dark menace of the Hard Nut story that underpins Drosselmeyer's gift of the Nutcracker Doll to Marie.
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