Scottish Ballet bosses will make changes to The Nutcracker after an anti-racism review found some scenes 'proliferated racial stereotypes'.
The dance company will remove 'elements of caricature' from Arabian and Chinese sequences in The Nutcracker as part of an overhaul of a production first staged 1972.
Changes to characters, costumes and choreography will be made to scenes in The Land of the Sweets in The Nutcracker, which will feature a cast of 40 children.
Act two of the ballet represents different nationalities through the 'dances of the sweets', including Spanish 'Chocolate', Arabian 'Coffee' and Chinese 'Tea'.
Drosselmeyer, the enigmatic toymaker and magician character in the 19th-century ballet, will be played by both male and female performers for the first time in the company's history.
The Nutcracker opens in Edinburgh on December 1 and will be touring Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
Act two of The Nutcracker Ballet represents different nationalities through the 'dances of the sweets'.
Foreign delicacies were very rare and people did not travel nearly as much when the ballet was created.
Dances performed by the sweets represent delicacies thought to be special enough to feature in the main character Clara's fantasy world.
Dancers' costumes depict sweets they bring from overseas.
Special dances include Spanish 'Chocolate', featuring lively trumpets and castanets; Arabian 'Coffee', where women dance in veils; and Chinese 'Tea', which involves an exotic Asian flute chorus.
In the 'Candy Canes' dance, Russian dolls follow the Mandarin tea dances with a Russin trepak.
-- Edited by Digger on Friday 5th of November 2021 10:20:18 PM
I hope nobody goes to see it. Seriously? What's fucking wrong with them?
I agree 100% Digs.
This continual rewriting and erasing of history, art, film. television and literature is quite sickening.
On the same subject on the word of one man the Yorkshire cricket team will now soon fall apart (I am sure everyone is aware of the story by now).
Oh and Michael Vaughn is not a 'racist' either and neither was the Lord God (Sir Geoffrey of Boycott) but he knew when to escape the BBC's preposterous racial/sex quota system and ever increasing woke/cancel culture.
Fuck them.
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Simple. You, you're the threads. But me, I'm the rope.
I have to say though that as someone with a partially Dalek heritage I found this video truly offensive and anyone who dares to laugh at it should be immediately exterminated.
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Simple. You, you're the threads. But me, I'm the rope.
I have to say though that as someone with a partially Dalek heritage I found this video truly offensive and anyone who dares to laugh at it should be immediately exterminated.
I've never thought Spike Milligan was funny. Everyone else thinks he's hilarious, but he's never floated my boat.
I didn't find him funny either, all the Goon humour left me cold.
It was funny though when he was asked what he would like to be written on his headstone after he died, his answer was "I told you I was ill".
I have to say though that as someone with a partially Dalek heritage I found this video truly offensive and anyone who dares to laugh at it should be immediately exterminated.
I've never thought Spike Milligan was funny. Everyone else thinks he's hilarious, but he's never floated my boat.
I was not a huge fan but I did enjoy the sheer absurdity of this sketch.
Possibly because the woke-brigade will have a heart attack when viewing it.
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Simple. You, you're the threads. But me, I'm the rope.
I didn't find him funny either, all the Goon humour left me cold. It was funny though when he was asked what he would like to be written on his headstone after he died, his answer was "I told you I was ill".
Even he didn’t find himself funny. Chronically depressive.
I didn't find him funny either, all the Goon humour left me cold. It was funny though when he was asked what he would like to be written on his headstone after he died, his answer was "I told you I was ill".
Even he didn’t find himself funny. Chronically depressive.
Depression sometimes does go hand in hand with some of the famous comics.
