6 F / 6 M
Comedy in three acts
6 Sets
This is a cheerful parody, created by the cosmopolitan wonder child of London, Peter Ustinov. In the saga about ‘Sleeping Beauty’ we learn of a good and an evil fairy that fight over the souls of four colonels. Each of the colonels represents one of the four occupying powers in Europe. So in turn, the unattainable Sleeping Beauty tempts the four men; two of them are able to resist her unlike the last two and so it becomes an unsettled match between good and evil.
Superbly, Ustinov makes fine use of his skills in the four separate sketches, in which each of the colonels experiences bliss and love and so it is all turned into a wonderful parody on prevalent performances about different characters.
