Sleeping Beauty review " futuristic panto for the Fortnite generation
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonCharles Perrault meets Doctor Who in this lively production about a cockney martial-arts princess who travels through timePantomime survives by being infinitely flexible. This version of Sleeping Beauty, with book and lyrics by Sarah A Nixon and Mark Chatterton, is a plot-driven affair worlds away from the ramshackle entertainments I saw as a child, but, mixing antique fairytale an…