"Even by fairy-tale standards, Hans Christian Andersen's story of puritanical morality, repression and dismemberment stands ...

“I read the fairy tale and was like, ‘This is really hard because it’s not a fairy tale where everything works out okay in ...

Four stars - look out for the dinner scene, a fabulous slo-mo slaughter where the cutlery is magically weaponised.

Harris’s script is as limp as last week’s lettuce, especially in a plodding first half devoid of magic. It seemed ironic that ...

The Red Shoes, one of the RSC’s Christmas shows, has started performances at the Swan Theatre in Stratford.

Unlike her uplifting Christmas marvel The Magician’s Elephant at the RSC three years ago, Nancy Harris's adaption of The Red Shoes is a much darker affair. The grim tale centres around orphan ...

Unlike her uplifting Christmas marvel The Magician’s Elephant at the RSC three years ago, Nancy Harris's adaption of The Red Shoes is a much darker affair. The grim tale centres around orphan Karen ...

Vivid visuals and macabre humour animate this Nancy Harris and Kimberley Rampersad’s modern reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s grisly fairytale, starring Nikki Cheung, Dianne Pilkington and Sebast ...

Winner of two Olivier Awards, Matthew Bourne's triumphant adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film, The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl's dream to be the ...