Noel Streatfeild's novel has been adapted by Australian playwright Kendall Feaver and director Katy Rudd, but does it successfully glide from page to stage? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews.
"Suffused with gung-ho spirit, exuberance and larky wit", it is a celebration of plucky young women and "never puts a foot wrong". Feaver and Rudd have done a "magnificent job", agreed Sarah Crompton ...
Unlike The Importance of Being Earnest, its hot-ticket rival for festive attention at the Lyttelton, Ballet Shoes – as brought to the main Olivier stage by Kendall Feaver, with Katy Rudd ...