{"id":415585,"date":"2025-09-11T10:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415585\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:53:23","slug":"national-theatres-ballet-shoes-reveals-initial-casting-for-shows-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415585\/","title":{"rendered":"National Theatre\u2019s Ballet Shoes reveals initial casting for show\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1694092\" title=\"Lesley Nicol, Anoushka Lucas, Sienna Arif Knights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lesley-Nicol-Anoushka-Lucas-Sienna-Arif-Knights.jpg\" alt=\"Lesley Nicol, Anoushka Lucas, Sienna Arif Knights\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Lesley Nicol, Anoushka Lucas, Sienna Arif Knights, \u00a9 Ruth Crafer, Sergei Sarakhanov, David Myers<\/p>\n<p>Casting has been confirmed for the stage adaptation of Noel Streatfeild\u2019s best-selling book Ballet Shoes, which will return this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted by Kendall Feaver, the family show will once more play on the National Theatre\u2019s Olivier stage over the festive season later this year. The piece follows three adopted sisters living in a crumbling house, learning to forge a future while keeping their family together.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Katy Rudd, it was first seen last autumn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonstage.com\/news\/ballet-shoes-at-the-national-theatre-review-springs-from-page-to-stage-with-panache_1656503\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where it opened to glowing reviews.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing the three Fossil sisters will be Sienna Arif-Knights as Petrova Fossil, Nina Cassells as Pauline Fossil and Scarlett Monahan as Posy Fossil.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, returning cast members include Eryck Brahmania as Prince, Luke Cinque-White as Flyman, Georges Hann as Flyman, Nadine Higgin as Theo, Xolisweh Ana Richards as Katerina Federovksy, Justin Salinger as Great Uncle Matthew\/Fidolia\/Mr French\/Mr Sholsky\/Madame Manoff and Katie Singh in the ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>New for this run are Raj Bajaj (Jai), Rosie Boore (ensemble), Chrissy Brooke (Young Manoff\/The Ballerina\/ensemble), Pandora Colin (Dr Jakes), Stephanie Elstob (swing), Sebastian Goffin (swing), Gracie Hodson-Prior (Winifred), Anoushka Lucas (Sylvia), Kaitlyn Moore (ensemble), Lesley Nicol (Nana), Anu Ogunmefun (ensemble), and Suzy Osadchyi (swing). Further casting is to be announced<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Rudd as director, the show\u2019s creative team includes set designer Frankie Bradshaw, costume designer Samuel Wyer, choreographer Ellen Kane, composer Asaf Zohar, dance arranger and orchestrator Gavin Sutherland, lighting designer Paule Constable, sound designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph, video designer Ash J Woodward, illusions director Chris Fisher, casting director Bryony Jarvis-Taylor, dialect coach Penny Dyer and voice coach Cathleen McCarron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lesley Nicol, Anoushka Lucas, Sienna Arif Knights, \u00a9 Ruth Crafer, Sergei Sarakhanov, David Myers Casting has been confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115185295250989139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}