Theatre: A deliciously grim fairytale
Like a child’s stocking on December 25, The Red Shoes is stuffed full of good things
The Red Shoes
By Nancy Harris (adapted from the story by Hans Christian Andersen)
Gate Theatre
Runs until January 27
Rating:***
‘Why does passion have to have a price?” asks Karen (Stephanie Dufresne), a lonely orphan in Nancy Harris’s visually sumptuous but strangely incoherent new adaptation of The Red Shoes. “What’s wrong with wanting to feel beautiful or happy or free?” Her adoptive mother Mariella (Marion O’Dwyer) provides the classically Irish response: “Because ...
