Cottesloe, LondonThe dedicatedly avant-garde Katie Mitchell astonished many last year with her playful production of The Cat in the Hat. Now she has directed and co-devised, with writer Lucy Kirkwood, a new version of this classic French fairy story.The result is pleasant enough but it comes swathed in too much fancy wrapping and misses much of the fable's magical innocence " a quality revealed by Jean Cocteau in his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20PM on December 1, 2010