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Nikki Cheung in The Red Shoes at the Swan Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo: Manuel Harlan

Vivid visuals and macabre humour animate this modern reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s grisly fairytale

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