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Ballet Shoes (Playscript)

Kendall Feaver

Noel Streatfeild’s beloved children’s classic, re-imagined with wit, sensitivity and flair by Kendall Feaver, in its first major stage adaptation.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571393787
Date Published
05.12.2024
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Summary

We three Fossils vow to make history because we don’t have any history but we do have a name and if we put that name into history we’ll earn lots of money and we’ll be really famous and we’ll fix the roof and no one will say it’s because of our grandfathers.

In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they want to be.

Under the watchful eyes of Nana and their guardian Sylvia, together with some unlikely lodgers, the Fossil sisters fight to pursue their passions. In a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, they must forge a future, keep their family together, and maybe learn a dance or two along the way.

Kendall Feaver’s version of Noel Streatfeild’s beloved children’s classic opened at the National Theatre, London, in November 2024.

Critic Reviews

Suffused with gung-ho spirit, exuberance and larky wit . . . this superlative adaptation never puts a foot wrong. No notes. Bravo.

Evening Standard
Critic Reviews

Effusive, lovable, gorgeous, gutsy . . . Ballet Shoes is as delicately balanced as a dancer on pointe, finding ways to diversify and complexify this story in ways that never feel lazy or jarring. It’s a Christmas treat for every possible kind of family.

Independent
Critic Reviews

This first ever stage adaptation of the beloved children’s classic is a joy: playful, graceful – and a palpable hit. It asks the big questions – who we are, what we can do with our lives – honours our literary heritage, advances the theatrical form and offers feelgood pleasure.

Telegraph
Critic Reviews

Ballet Shoes is a perfect joy: Noel Streatfeild’s evergreen 1936 children’s book has been exuberantly adapted by Kendall Feaver in a manner so skilful it will please the novel’s generations of fans while simultaneously enchanting a whole new audience.

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KendallFeaver

Kendall Feaver received the Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Best New Play at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards, and the 2019 NSW and Victorian Premier’s Prizes for Drama for her play, The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange, Manchester; Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney). Stage adaptations include: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and Ballet…

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