Information for The Red Shoes at Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon (Kids show). Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world, or so they say. When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard. Dazzled by a pair of beautiful shoes, she sees the chance to do and be so much more, but soon her feet betray her, taking her to places she does not wish to go. This Christmas, get up close to the magic as playwright Nancy Harris brings Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairy tale into the 21st century in the intimate surroundings of the Swan Theatre.