It’s not Christmas without a Nutcracker

Up and down the land this winter, Clara and the prince of her dreams will dance through a flurry of snowflakes to Tchaikovsky – and packed houses. So what makes this annual ballet fixture so irresistible?“Dreams are strangely familiar places,” says Julie Harris’s narrator in the 1986 film version of The Nutcracker. “They are not all make-believe, but only the homely inside of yourself, like the inner lining of your favourite coat...” Every winter, Britons