A stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's classic novel, War Horse, explores the powerful bond between a boy and his horse against the backdrop of World War I.
A new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel brings the kinship of boy and beast alive in a triumph of theatrical storytelling. War Horse : Tom Sturgess as Albert Narracott, who forms a bond with Joey, the horse, that sustains them both through the violence of battle. Photograph: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg, a chestnut colt is nickering nervously, unwilling to be reined. Bred to be a hunting horse, he has been bought to plough the fallow fields of a Devon farm.
He whinnies in protest against the leather harness, bucks his forelegs as the bridle is secured. With the bit in his mouth, he rears and kicks his hind hooves, determined to resist. In the end it isn’t physical restraint that calms him but the gentling voice of his new owner, 15-year-old Albert Narracott. This inhospitable beginning begets a bond that sustains them both through the violence of domestic and military battles. Boy and beast, man and animal: the relationship is the basis of an authentic kinship. If the connection between Albert and his horse, which he names Joey, seems far-fetched, an imaginative stretch, millions of readers, film lovers and theatregoers would disagree. It provides the central plot for War Horse, the beloved 1982 novel by the lauded British author. Adapted for the stage in 2007, it has become one of the most celebrated shows in the repertoire of Britain’s National Theatre, as well as the foundation of This month the production comes to Ireland. Nick Stafford’s script remains unchanged, but a new cast brings a vivid, fresh interpretation to the work where women’s experiences of the first World War are brought out of the shadows and the world of the battlefield is expanded through the possibilities of digital projection of drawings by Rae Smith, the original designe
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