Scottish Ballet's Nutcracker: brimming with Christmas magic

Grace Horler as Drosselmeyer in Scottish Ballet's The Nutcracker

Andrea Azzaro in Scottish Ballet's The Nutcracker

Yuri Marques Da Silva as the Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker

Scottish Ballet associates in The Nutcracker

Yuri Marques Da Silva as the Nutcracker Prince and Jessica Fyfe as the Sugar Plum Fairy

Javier Andreu, Harvey Evans, Mackenzie Jacob and (low centre) James Garrington

By Kathy Elgin, 12 December 2024

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“The Realm of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a fabulous cave of a thousand shimmering Christmas baubles”

Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 6 December 2024

The Nutcracker (Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Peter Darrell)

Scottish Ballet

Christopher Hampson, Director

Lez Brotherston, Set Designer, Costume Designer

George Thomson, Lighting Designer

Scottish Ballet Orchestra

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.