Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
Now available! Our long-awaited DVD, Blu-ray, and download of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes was released on 21 September 2021.
Like other Matthew Bourne products, DVD and Blu-ray versions of The Red Shoes feature a fabulous additional 30-minute film, The Making of The Red Shoes. Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and creative members offer a wonderful peek behind the curtain of this fabulous performance.
The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession, and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion: the composer Julian Craster played by original cast member Dominic North, and legendary impresario Boris Lermontov, with the great Adam Cooper in the role.
Filmed at Sadler’s Wells in 2019, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is a triumphant adaptation of the legendary 1948 feature film by Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Set to the achingly romantic music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, The Red Shoes is orchestrated by Terry Davies and performed live by the New Adventures Orchestra, with cinematic designs by Lez Brotherston, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Paul Groothuis, and projection by Duncan McLean.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is available for order here.
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