Matthew Bournes' The Red Shoes
The double Olivier award-winning show returns!
Why see Matthew Bournes' The Red Shoes?
The Olivier Award Winner Returns
Matthew Bourne's Olivier award-winning The Red Shoes returns to stages across the UK for a new tour in 2026. Based on the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film, which is in turn based on the tragic fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson, The Red Shoes is the story of a talented young dancer who finds herself torn between love and her career, with heartbreaking consequences.
Created by the celebrated Matthew Bourne with his New Adventures company, The Red Shoes first premiered back in 2016 at Plymouth's Theatre Royal. Since then, it has become one of his signature works, with performances in London and across the UK, allowing audiences to experience the glamour, romance, and heartbreak of the story in a breathtaking production that captures a sense of possession, passion, and all-encompassing obsession, wrapped up in Bourne's otherworldly choreography
Accompanied by the New Adventures Orchestra. The Red Shoes features musical direction by Terry Davies with design by Lez Brotherston.
Key Information
Audience
7+
Run Time
Two hours long including a 20-minute interval
Dates
Finished 18 Apr
Creative
Adapted and Choreographed by Matthew Bourne
Set and costume design by Lez Brotherston
Lighting by Paule Constable
Sound design by Paul Groothuis
Reviews
Customer reviews
1 reviews, average rating: (5.0 Stars)
Anne Sheila Livesey
The Red Shoes
Marvellous, beautiful interpretation
the audience stood up to applause when the performance within the performance took its curtain call - but some of us knew this was not the end
beautiful performances from all,
i expected Victoria to fling herself over the balcony (to an unseen mattress) but the actual train prop was much better.
The ballet was halted temporarily due to some technical difficulty but that was fixed and the show went on.
This was my Christmas present off my daughter and it was the best! ... Read more
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