Zellerbach Hall
2100 Bancroft Way
510.642.9988
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The Hard Nut
- When
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Dec 11, 2009 – Dec 20, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$36 - 62
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You'll notice something odd beneath all the tulle and sequins adorning The Hard Nut's dancers: the pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairies are actually men sashaying with campy grace, and heroine Marie is a sucker-punching bully straight out of Brooklyn. Mark Morris' satirical variation on Yuletide fave The Nutcracker is intentionally rough around the edges, with plenty of gender-bending and re-interpretating of Tchaikovsky's classic Christmas fairy tale.
