'The Young Vic's Christmas show is outstanding... mixes the mythic and the macabre... What makes the show so dazzling is Norris's ability to appeal to children and adults alike. Kids around me seemed entranced, as I was, by the unfolding narrative' Guardian 'Weird and wonderful... Rufus Norris's darkly and drolly imaginative version... Both direct and sophisticated, primal and glintingly allusive, this Sleeping Beauty continues the Young Vic's proud tradition of mounting the best Yuletide show in London' Independent
