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Red Shoes, The (stage version)

"Passion has its price."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Fantasy/Adventure

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
An orphan girl, adopted by a wealthy family, is given a pair of beautiful red shoes. At first it appears her dreams have come true… but appearances can be very deceptive.

Nancy Harris's play The Red Shoes is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction. It premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2017.

REVIEWS:

"Darkly spectacular… a bold retelling."

 Irish Times

"Charming yet spooky… mixes song and dance with a witty dash of macabre."

 Irish Mail on Sunday

"Dark and delicious."

 Irish Independent

Premiere Production: The Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2017.
  • Casting: 5M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Good role(s) for female performers

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An orphan girl, adopted by a wealthy family, is given a pair of beautiful red shoes. At first it appears her dreams have come true… but appearances can be very deceptive.

Nancy Harris's play The Red Shoes is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction. It premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2017.

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