Video: Watch a New Preview of BALLET SHOES at the National Theatre

Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) returns to The National Theatre to direct a re-imagining of Noel Streatfeild’s beloved novel Ballet Shoes, in a new version by Kendall Feaver (The Almighty Sometimes). Watch a new preview of the production, now playing in the Olivier Theatre until February 22.

The bestselling book revitalised for the stage... 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? 

Full casting for Ballet Shoes includes Stacy Abalogun (Ensemble), Eryck Brahmania (Ensemble), Cordelia Braithwaite (Ensemble), Michelle Cornelius (Ensemble), Sonya Cullingford (Winifred), Yanexi Enriquez (Petrova Fossil), Jenny Galloway (Nana), Courtney George (Ensemble), GEORGES HANN  (Ensemble), Nadine Higgin (Theo Dane), Nuwan Hugh Perera (Ensemble), Philip Labey (Ensemble), Katie Lee (On Stage Swing), Helena Lymbery (Doctor Jakes), SHAROL MACKENZIE (Ensemble), Pearl Mackie (Sylvia),  Xolisweh Ana Richards (Ballet Dancer + Ensemble), Sid Sagar  (Jai Saran), Grace Saif (Pauline Fossil), Justin Salinger (GUM + Fidolia), Daisy Sequerra (Posy Fossil) and Katie Singh (Ensemble).

Directed by Katy Rudd with set designer Frankie Bradshaw, Costume Designer Samuel Wyer, choreographer Ellen Kane, composer Asaf Zohar, dance arrangements and orchestrations Gavin Sutherland, lighting designer Paule Constable, sound designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph, video designer Ash J Woodward, casting director Bryony Jarvis-Taylor, classical coach Cira Robinson, dialect coach Penny Dyer, voice coaches Cathleen McCarron and Tamsin Newlands, associate set designer Natalie Johnson, associate choreographer Jonathan Goddard and staff director Aaliyah Mckay.

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