New Adventures has announced the full cast and tour dates for its forthcoming revival of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes.
The double Olivier award-winning show is back for a new 2025 and 2026 tour after its 2020 tour was cut short due to the pandemic.
The Red Shoes will open at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 17 to 22 November 2025, and a six week Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London from 2 December 2025 to 18 January 2026. Other tour dates include Salford, Glasgow, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Woking, Liverpool, Cardiff, Southampton, Birmingham, Canterbury, Edinburgh, and Newcastle.
Announced today, the tour will also now visit Norwich and Bradford. See all dates and booking info.
The role of Victoria Page will be shared by Ashley Shaw, Cordelia Braithwaite, Hannah Kremer and Holly Saw in The Red Shoes, alongside Andy Monaghan and Reece Causton as Boris Lermontov, Dominic North and Leonardo McCorkindale as Julian Kraster, Michela Meazza, Cordelia Braithwaite and Katrina Lyndon as Irina Boronskaya, Liam Mower, Will Bozier and Jackson Fisch as Ivan Boleslawsky and Glenn Graham, Liam Mower and Reece Causton as Grischa Ljubov.
They are joined by Mark Austin, Tom Barnes Standing, Isabella Chandler, Adam Davies, Cameron Flynn, Anna-Maria de Freitas, Christina Gibbs, Thomas Ireson, Rosanna Lindsey, Callum Mann, Daisy May Kemp, Jarrod McWilliams, Matthew Potulski, Molly Shaw-Downie, Kingston Taylor, Shakiera Ward and Daisy West.
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 production of the Powell and Pressburger film is set to a score orchestrated by Terry Davies, featuring music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, with set and costumes by Lez Brotherston, lighting design by Paule Constable, and sound design by Paul Groothuis.
Matthew Bourne said in a statement: “I’m thrilled to announce today that 11 of the original cast of The Red Shoes, which premiered in 2016, are returning for this 10th Anniversary production, performing the roles they created, possibly, for the last time. This is something that no New Adventures fan will want to miss! The Red Shoes was the culmination of a twenty-year ambition to bring Powell and Pressburger’s seminal 1948 film to the stage. It was also, in many ways, a personal love letter to a life in theatre and dance. This production was certainly a landmark event for New Adventures, becoming an instant classic and a beloved addition to our repertoire. I’m so happy to see it return this year, especially as our last tour in 2020 was sadly cut short by the pandemic and left many of our loyal audiences throughout the UK disappointed. So, welcome back to the Ballet Lermontov and to paraphrase the great impresario himself… ‘It’s time to put on the red shoes, Vicky, and dance for us again….’”
Book tickets to Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells Theatre London & on tour
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