'What’s wrong with wanting to dance?'
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world, or so they say.
When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard. Dazzled by a pair of beautiful shoes, she sees the chance to do and be so much more, but soon her feet betray her, taking her to places she does not wish to go.
For Christmas 2024, playwright Nancy Harris brought Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy tale into the 21st century in the intimate surroundings of the Swan Theatre.
Directed by Kimberley Rampersad in her RSC debut, The Red Shoes was both wickedly funny and a cautionary tale of pride, vanity and how we all deserve to dance how we wish to dance.
