Ballet Shoes

The 5* ‘playful, graceful adaptation’ (Telegraph) returns.

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?

Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) returns to the National Theatre to direct this 5* ‘perfect joy’ (The i), as Noel Streatfeild’s beloved novel is brought back to the Olivier Stage in this new version by Kendall Feaver (The Almighty Sometimes).

Originally published in 1936, the novel Ballet Shoes has been adapted for the screen on two occasions by the BBC, the first in 1975, with the more recent adaptation in 2007 starring Emma Watson. With the stage adaption premiering at the National Theatre in November 2024, it returns this Winter giving us our first opportunity as a group to visit the National Theatre.