National Theatre's BALLET SHOES returns to Olivier Theatre in Winter 2025

Photo credit: Manuel Harlan

Ahead of the last performance on Saturday, the National Theatre has announced that Kendall Feaver’s celebrated and acclaimed adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s best-selling book Ballet Shoes will return for this year’s festive season.

Ballet Shoes’ return forms part of incoming Director and Co-CEO Indhu Rubasingham’s inaugural season and will run in the Olivier theatre from winter 2025. Further programming is to be announced soon.

Indhu Rubasingham said: “I am proud that Ballet Shoes will be returning to the Olivier this Christmas. It is a celebration of what the NT does best – when all the teams, departments and the widest range of expertise come together to create a family show for all audiences full of theatrical magic. I want more people to see this beautiful show made by wonderful artists, developed and built by this brilliant organisation.”

In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?

The creative team includes director Katy Rudd, set designer Frankie Bradshaw, costume designer Samuel Wyer, choreographer Ellen Kane, composer Asaf Zohar, dance arranger and orchestrator Gavin Sutherland, lighting designer Paule Constable, sound designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph, video designer Ash J Woodward, illusions designer Chris Fisher, and casting director Bryony Jarvis-Taylor.

Casting and dates are to be announced, with tickets going on general sale from 20 March here.