Sleeping Beauty, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: No one could sleep through this Sleeping Beauty. Iain Lauchlan, who writes, directs and stars (the unforgettable Dame Nanny Knot) is a talent of Falstaffian flab (a Desmond Barrit of the Xmas stage). His buffooning is classic old-style: scarcely two obscene ribaldries in an hilarious two-hour script. Echoes of Doddy, Tommy Cooper perhaps, but primarily, Lauchlan's own patent comic gen…