The Stratford main-stage has Twelfth Night, while the Swan is home to The Red Shoes, a newish take (first seen in 2017) on the sinister, and a little slight, Hans Christian Andersen tale.
Think of Cinderella and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, for starters. The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen is a cautionary narrative about (female) vanity; its most famous reworking, Powell and ...
Vivid visuals and macabre humour animate this modern reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s grisly fairytale ... acquiring a pair of beautiful magical shoes that cause her to dance uncontrollably.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released photos of The Red Shoes, a new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Nancy Harris. The production, which follows a girl besotted by a ...
The pair are currently making their RSC debuts as Mariella and Bob, the social climbing couple who adopt the orphan Karen in ...