The Olivier Award Winner Returns

Matthew Bourne's Olivier award-winning The Red Shoes returns to stages across the UK for a new tour in 2026. Based on the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film, which is in turn based on the tragic fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson, The Red Shoes is the story of a talented young dancer who finds herself torn between love and her career, with heartbreaking consequences.

Created by the celebrated Matthew Bourne with his New Adventures company, The Red Shoes first premiered back in 2016 at Plymouth's Theatre Royal. Since then, it has become one of his signature works, with performances in London and across the UK, allowing audiences to experience the glamour, romance, and heartbreak of the story in a breathtaking production that captures a sense of possession, passion, and all-encompassing obsession, wrapped up in Bourne's otherworldly choreography 

Accompanied by the New Adventures Orchestra. The Red Shoes features musical direction by Terry Davies with design by Lez Brotherston.