The Red Shoes review: Matthew Bourne is in his storytelling pomp

Matthew Bourne is in his storytelling pomp - 4/5 This adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s famous classic is a tragedy told ...
The Jewish Chronicle

The Red Shoes review: Trademark Bourne wit in an ultimately tragic tale

Matthew Bourne’s ballet about a woman who must choose between love and dance is full of passion and self-awareness ...
The Arts Desk

The Red Shoes, Sadler's Wells review - once again, Matthew Bourne lights up the season

Filmmakers Powell and Pressburger were not the first to portray ballet dancing as a fatal obsession and choreographer Matthew ...

The Red Shoes review, Sadler’s Wells – Matthew Bourne conjures the impassioned, hothouse world of ballet

Matthew Bourne ’s The Red Shoes is a swirl of colour and intensity. Adapted from the 1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, this stage version wonderfully conjures its 1940s world of ...

This dazzling Red Shoes gives Powell and Pressburger a run for their money

Dance-theatre grand vizier Matthew Bourne – mastermind of the fantastic, now returning 2016 melodrama The Red Shoes – once ...
PBS

The Red Shoes: From Film to Stage

Listen to director Matthew Bourne as he explains how he incorporated dance into this stage adaptation of “The Red Shoes.” Based on the iconic film by the same name, Bourne chose to fully immerse the ...