A grown-up attitude to children's theatre - and not a fairytale in sight

guardian.co.uk: "There are rumblings in the landscape of performance for children, and they're getting stronger. Despite the brilliant work done over the last few years by a handful of genuinely cutting-edge companies, this is a field that is still tarnished by ideas about its triviality, its failure to take risks, and its bright and synthetic disregard for grown-up performance aesthetics. But looking at some of the work that's on offer in London this Christmas, it seems that there's definitely change afoot."