Further tour dates announced for Matthew Bourne's THE RED SHOES
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New Adventures have announced further tour dates for Matthew Bourne’s double Olivier award-winning, smash hit production of The Red Shoes, which returns for a 2025/26 tour for the first time since its 2020 tour was cut short due to the pandemic.
The Red Shoes will open at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 17-22 November before visiting The Lowry, Salford from 25-29 November, ahead of the previously announced seven-week annual Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from 2 December 2025 - 18 January 2026, marking New Adventures’ 23rd consecutive Christmas season at the venue. In 2026, The Red Shoes will tour to Nottingham and Southampton, with further tour venues to be announced.
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.
Matthew Bourne’s magical double Olivier Award-winning production of the legendary Powell and Pressburger film is set to a score orchestrated by Terry Davies, featuring the mesmerising music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, with sumptuous designs by Lez Brotherston, lighting by Paule Constable, and sound by Paul Groothuis.
An intoxicating drama where life imitates art with fateful consequences, The Red Shoes will dazzle your senses and break your heart.