Ballet Shoes

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.

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 Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (National Theatre, London). Kendall has written on invited attachments at the National Theatre and Bush Theatre. She was the 2019 Philip Parsons Fellow at Belvoir Street Theatre, and an inaugural member of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays programme (2019/20).