The Olivier Award winning production based on the film is set to begin a new UK tour at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Complete casting and touring schedule has now been confirmed for Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes which will open for a tour later this year.
Forming the 10th anniversary cast are 11 of the original cast of The Red Shoes. Playing Victoria Page are Ashley Shaw, Cordelia Braithwaite, Hannah Kremer and Holly Saw, alongside Andy Monaghan and Reece Causton as Boris Lermontov, Dominic North and Leonardo McCorkindale as Julian Kraster, Michela Meazza, Braithwaite and Katrina Lyndon as Irina Boronskaya, Liam Mower, Will Bozier and Jackson Fisch as Ivan Boleslawsky and Glenn Graham, Mower and Causton as Grischa Ljubov.
The company is completed by Mark Austin, Tom Barnes Standing, New Adventures emerging artist Isabella Chandler, Adam Davies, Cameron Flynn, Anna-Maria de Freitas, Christina Gibbs, Thomas Ireson, Rosanna Lindsey, Callum Mann, Daisy May Kemp, Jarrod McWilliams, Matthew Potulski, Molly Shaw-Downie, Kingston Taylor, Shakiera Ward and Daisy West.
A timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its powerful tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a fierce struggle between the two men who inspire her passion.
The show is set to open at Theatre Royal Plymouth on the 17th November before heading to The Lowry, Salford from 25th November until 29th November, ahead of the previously announced 7-week annual Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from 2nd December 2025 to 18th January 2026, marking New Adventures’ 23rd consecutive Christmas season at the venue. Into 2026, the production will then visit: Glasgow, Nottingham, and Milton Keynes, before visiting Woking, Liverpool, Cardiff, Southampton, Birmingham, Canterbury, Norwich, Edinburgh, Bradford, and Newcastle.
The Red Shoes is set to a score orchestrated by Terry Davies and featuring the music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, with designs by Lez Brotherston (set and costumes), Paule Constable (lighting) and Paul Groothuis (sound).
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