THEATRE

WILLIAM COOK

THE RED SHOES RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 19th January Always read the small print. When I heard the Royal Shakespeare Company were mounting a new show called The Red Shoes, I blithely assumed it'd be a theatrical version of Powell and Pressburger's 1948 movie. That masterful film, about an innocent ballerina who's destroyed by her untamed talent, remains a byword for all that's best in British cinema. What a brilliant idea to adapt it for the stage! In fact, this is a reinterpretation of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, upon which Powell and Pressburger's movie was (very loosely) based. This Red Shoes wasn't what I expected, but it was still a very nice surprise. Nancy Harris's retelling of Andersen's fable is engrossing and entertaining. It also does something rather…

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