“Dear audience, even though it’s not Christmas Eve
and we are not in Nuremberg and
nor are we ballet dancers ... We are
to tell you the story of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
The five actresses - an aerialist, a dancer, an opera singer and two actresses - begin the performance.
But as soon as they start, they reveal it’s complexity,
should be about: beauty? Nuts?
Mice and rats? Or about ableism? - What is
is that? And what does it have to do with the Nutcracker story?”
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