Sleeping Beauty , Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lyric Theatre, Belfast: Over the years, Deborah Maguire has notched up many choreographer credits at the Lyric - for her directing debut, she has been gifted a script by Derek O'Connor, which eschews saccharine sentimentality while delivering the classic fairy tale with all its vital elements firmly in place. Maguire responds with a modest-scale but prettily formed production, blending subversive, dark humour wi…