Theatre: The red boot diaries
Award-winning choreographer Louisa Talbot excels at putting original work on stage and screen. Debbie Hathway got to the bottom of what it’s like to dance a mile in her heels
28 November 2019 - 03:00
What do you do when you get the rights to create new choreography on a hit musical that has won six Tony and three Olivier awards?
When you’re Louisa Talbot, 38, an award winner in your own right, you learn to make shoes at a Cape Town factory. She took this step after being invited to work on Kinky Boots, the story of how a young man turns his father’s shoemaking business around with the help of a rather unusual entertainer...
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