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Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Nugent
GORDON PARSONS is filled with unease by the RSC’s offering of a brutal fairytale for Christmas
red shoes

The Red Shoes
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

 

THE RSC are taking no chances with the venue for their Stratford Christmas show this year.

Hans Christian Anderson’s gruesome fairy tale is as grim as any of those of the famous Brothers.

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