Arts: Cork Ballet's 'Nutcracker to remember'

There is something inherently festive about The Nutcracker, not least because it is set on Christmas Eve and tells the story of a little girl called Clara given the present of a nutcracker shaped like a man, who gets broken and then comes to life at the turn of midnight on Christmas morning, and a battle between an army of gingerbread men and mice, before the action moves to the Land of Sweets, ruled by none other than the Sugar Plum Fairy.