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Nutcracker Gets Woke Makeover With Suffragettes and Girl Boss Lead

by Will Jones
14 December 2024 11:00 AM

The Nutcracker has been given a woke makeover by the English National Ballet with the addition of Suffragettes and a girl boss lead character. The Telegraph has more.

Suffragettes will feature alongside sugar plums in a new feminist production of The Nutcracker.

Tchaikovsky’s ballet of enchanted toys and magical sweets will be staged by the English National Ballet over Christmas.

The 1892 ballet has long been a festive favourite, but it has now been updated for modern audiences by making its heroine less helpless.

Clara, the lead, will be shown handling the villains herself rather than leaving the violence to the eponymous Nutcracker, who is the prince charming of the piece.

Her heroics in the updated tale come after she is shown taking inspiration from a group of suffragettes in an amended early scene.

The feminist tweaks make the plot more of a journey of self-discovery than a simple fantasy, English National Ballet has said.

In promotional material for the show, which runs until January 12th at the London Coliseum, the company said: “She [Clara] is a young girl living in Edwardian London.

“Her journey reflects the era’s emerging hope, especially for women – she even meets some suffragettes along her journey.”

It adds that Clara “goes on a transformative adventure, building her confidence and helping her realise her inner strength”. …

The suite of changes has been overseen by co-choreographers Arielle Smith and Aaron Watkin, who wanted to modernise the plot.

Mr. Watkin told the Radio Times magazine: “We’re in a very different time now to when The Nutcracker premiered.

“Why does Clara need someone to protect her? She’s a young woman full of agency.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ArtsBalletDanceFeminismGo woke go brokeSuffragettesWoke Gobbledegook

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago

“Updated for modern audiences” = turned into ideologically driven trash

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Well so what I don’t gaf. I don’t like ballet, the kind of people that do ( or rather, pretend to with the generous aid of our taxes) love this shit.

Let ’em get on with it.

I’m much more concerned about trashing the education of a whole generation, and about the IPCC’s latest shenanigans.

Last edited 5 months ago by Jack the dog
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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

You are right, it’s irrelevant.
Just some brain dead rubbish produced by talentless people who, devoid of any original ideas, take a classic piece of real art and trash it.
“By their fruits you will know them.”

Last edited 5 months ago by MajorMajor
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

I like ballet, and I don’t “love this shit”.

I can’t be sure but I would be surprised if any of the ballet performances I have watched live were subsidised, given the very high ticket prices, but then I haven’t gone to see woke crap like this.

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Solentviews
Solentviews
5 months ago

I can’t think of much that the ENO hasn’t butchered. I wonder if they would survive without their copious grants?

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
5 months ago

“She even meets some suffragettes along her journey.”

Did she help them plant bombs?

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DS99
DS99
5 months ago

This story is better suited to the roundup.

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sskinner
sskinner
5 months ago

Perhaps ENO should have thrown in some Burka wearing mice with the soldiers wearing ISIS head bands with Hamas flags, just to cater fully for ‘modern’ audiences. I’m sure the Suffragettes would have been all in with this?

Last edited 5 months ago by sskinner
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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago

So men can apparently identify as feminists too, then? Who’d have thunk it? And there was me just talking about the many men who are onboard with the whole woke mind virus thing…Facts proving rather inconvenient yet again for some, no doubt.

Both the Artistic Director and outgoing CEO of the ENB are men ( woman taking over as CEO in Jan, though ). Who did we say was responsible for the alleged ”feminization of the nation”, again?🧐

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ds5U-_Np0

https://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/2024/06/04/the-royal-ballet-school-appoints-new-ceo/

Last edited 5 months ago by Mogwai
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pgstokes
pgstokes
5 months ago

Why don’t they write new stuff that fulfils their political views and people will pay to see? Oh yes, sorry. They can’t.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
5 months ago

Such performances are only possible because the taxpayers fund them. The tax payers don’t want to go and no one asked them.

i suggest such funding ought to be voluntary. An opt-in on tax returns could be used.

Last edited 5 months ago by EppingBlogger
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JXB
JXB
5 months ago

My understanding (open to correction) is the Suffragettes campaigned for suffrage for women 30 years or older, but not from the working class.

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crevice
crevice
5 months ago

The silly thing is it just doesn’t reflect reality. A twelve year old girl is attacked and you really think she’ll fight off the villains not the soldier? Even if she was a grown woman I think in reality it’s going to be a man that fights the villains.

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Archimedes
Archimedes
5 months ago

‘Modernise the plot’. What on Earth does this vacuous statement mean? I suppose it is meant to sound cool and hip but, instead, comes across as laughable nonsense.

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WillP
WillP
5 months ago

Snore…

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