Red Shoes

Here is the link to mine and Harry's presentation about the play Red Shoes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K01xlwca460&list=PLl8RU1N6TfpLBx2D9Eg4nEh5ge_EKdB4g&index=14


Beginnings:
My initial response to the whole text was that is was very strange and eccentric however I thought the storyline was very interesting because it was so wacky. I was so excited to devise our own piece based off of Red Shoes as it would be equally as eccentric and would be humorous to create. We loved the magical, fairy tale themes from Red Shoes. In fact, the idea of the red shoes is what inspired us to do the fairy tale Cinderella, as we thought the red shoes were similar to the glass slippers. We were interested in the narrator character and therefore we decided that we needed at least one narrator in our piece, and the character of Karen would be similar to the character of Cinderella.
We did lots of research into Kneehigh Theatre Company, and their version of Red Shoes. They used a drag queen to narrate their piece, which added a bit of Kneehigh magic to it, and made it quirky and different.