'Sleeping Beauty' now a prince

01 December 2015 - 02:15
By Staff reporter

A radical retelling of the traditional fairy tale Sleeping Beauty has seen the princess dropped for a prince called Percy. According to reports in Britain's Guardian newspaper, Prince Percy will be in the princess's traditional role in the production at Bristol's Old Vic theatre.Instead of the princess pricking her finger and falling into a 100-year sleep, it will be Percy - and a heroine will be the one to wake him.

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