Merry Christmas!
Our Christmas treat for you is our co-production with New Adventures of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes screened on BBC Two on Christmas Day and now on BBC iPlayer for a year.
Filmed at Sadler’s Wells early this year, this is Matthew’s glorious retelling of the story of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 film. The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page (Ashley Shaw) lives to dance, but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men, Boris Lermontov (Adam Cooper) and Julian Craster (Dominic North), who inspire her passion.
Set to the music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, The Red Shoes is orchestrated by Terry Davies and played by the New Adventures Orchestra, with cinematic designs by Lez Brotherston, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Paul Groothuis and projection from Duncan McLean. The producer is Lucie Conrad and the screen director Ross MacGibbon.
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