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WAR HORSE Written by Lee Hall & Richard Curtis 1. DEVON, ENGLAND. A SUMMER'S DAY, 1912. The bucolic magnificence of the Devon countryside. We fly low over the high, thick hedges untouched for hundreds of years. Nov 14, 2011 The book War Horse is about a horse. It is a story about the horse’s life from when he was little to when he worked on a farm and then went to war. It is also about the different people that the horse lives with and how they treat him. It is also about the friendships that the horse has with the people that help him and with other horses. My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England.

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War Horse
Written by	Michael Morpurgo (novel) Nick Stafford (play)
Date premiered	17 October 2007
Place premiered	Royal National Theatre, London, England
Original language	English
Genre	Drama
Setting	England, France (1912–1918)
National Theatre (London); Lincoln Center Theater (New York); Princess of Wales Theatre (Toronto)

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War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by adult writter Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought 'they must be mad' to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; nonetheless, the play was a success.^[1] The play's West End and Broadway productions are directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris; it features life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, with 'horse choreography' by Toby Sedgwick.^[2]

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Synopsis[edit]

A captured foal is brought to Devon in the United Kingdom to be auctioned. Hoping to give it to his son Ned, Arthur Narracott bids on the foal; instead, his brother Ted competes with him and bids 30 guineas—an exorbitant amount for the poor farmer, winning the horse. The local drunkard, Ted is considered to be a coward, for refusing to have fought together with his brother in the earlier Boer War in South Africa. At the auction, Ted used money reserved to pay his farm mortgage. Ted's wife Rose fears they will lose their farm. Their son Albert promises to raise the foal and train him for sale. The boy names the foal Joey, and forms a strong bond with him during training..

Jealous of his cousin Albert, Ned convinces his father to get Ted drunk and make a bet: if Joey (bred and trained as a hunter, not a plough horse) can be taught to plough within a week, Arthur will pay Ted 39 guineas, the auction price. If Joey won't plough, Ned gets the horse. Albert successfully teaches Joey to pull the plough and gets to keep him.

News of the outbreak of World War I reaches Devon. When Ted sells Joey to the cavalry, Albert is crushed. Captain James Nicholls, who often sketched Albert riding the hunter, promises that he will personally look after the fine horse. At the same time, Arthur enlists Ned to fight despite his protests. Arthur gives Ned his grandfather's knife for protection. Joey and Topthorn (another army horse) are shipped to France. The charges of the British cavalry are overwhelmed by the fire from German machine guns, representing their new technology. During the first charge, Nicholls is shot and killed. Ned is assigned to ride Joey into battle and is captured by German troops.

Topthorn and Joey, life-size puppet horses, at a production of the play in Australia

Nicholls's sketchbook is sent to Albert, who learns Joey is serving 'unprotected' in France. He lies about his age, enlists in the army and goes to France. There he befriends Private David Taylor, a fellow soldier.

The Germans have taken Ned to a French farm being used as a makeshift hospital. He is killed brandishing his knife. Emilie, the girl of the farm family, is nearly killed in the altercation. German officer Friedrich Muller is reminded of his own daughter left in Germany. He and Emilie share a love of horses and, with Emilie's mother, they take care of the horses Joey and Topthorn, which are being kept to pull an ambulance for wounded soldiers.

When a shell kills most of his comrades, Friedrich switches his coat and identity with an enlisted medic, hoping to survive to return home. His subterfuge is discovered but Friedrich enables Emilie and her mother to escape. When the Germans force the two fine horses to work as draft horses, Joey inspires Topthorn to pull in order to survive. Once enemies, the two horses become friends, but Topthorn dies from exhaustion.

As Friedrich mourns the horse, a tank attack hits his group, killing him and driving Joey to run. He is caught in barbed wire in No Man's Land between the enemy lines. The Germans and British each send out a man under a white flag to aid the horse. Winning a coin toss, the British take the injured Joey back to camp.

Albert and David's infantry division encounter Emilie, who is alone and traumatized; they take her to British headquarters. On the way, Albert sees a dead horse with Ned's knife in him. Believing that the horse is Joey, Albert is broken. Recognizing Joey's name, Emilie tries to talk to Albert, but David is shot and killed, and Albert temporarily-blinded by tear gas. Emilie does not have the chance to tell him about his horse.

Behind the lines, in a British encampment, Albert tells his story to a nurse just as the damaged Joey is brought to the camp by soldiers. The soldiers prepare to kill the injured horse, but Albert whistles and Joey responds to him. Learning the full story, the soldiers agree to let Albert care for Joey during their joint convalescence. The horse and farmboy return home safe to Devon at the end of the war.

Productions[edit]

National Theatre (2007–2009)[edit]

The maquette for Joey from the National Theatre production. The puppets were made by the Handspring Puppet Company in South Africa. This scale model was a gift to Michael Morpurgo

The show premiered on 17 October 2007 in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre on the South Bank, London, on a run that ended on 14 February 2008.^[3] It returned for a second run on 10 September 2008, and closed on 18 March 2009.^[4]

West End (2009–2016)[edit]

War Horse transferred to the West End's New London Theatre, beginning preview performances on 28 March 2009, prior to an official opening of 3 April.^[5]^[6] The original cast featured Kit Harington as Albert, who reprised his South Bank performance.^[7]^[8]^[9] The production includes an original score composed by Adrian Sutton.

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The production met with critical acclaim for its powerful use of life-size horse puppets designed by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, winning an Olivier Award, Evening Standard Theatre Award and London Critics' Circle Theatre Award.^[10] On 12 October 2009 the performance was seen by HM Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, marking their first private theatre visit in four years.^[11]

War Horse has been popular with audiences, playing to 97% capacity in 2010, subsequently breaking the record for the highest weekly gross for a play in the West End. In December 2010, War Horse was dubbed 'the theatrical event of the decade' by The Times.^[12] In 2011 it welcomed its millionth audience member.^[13]

It was announced in September 2015, that War Horse was scheduled to close on 12 March 2016.^[14] By the time it closes the play will have played more than 3,000 performances.^[15]

Synopsis[edit]

Productions[edit]

National Theatre (2007–2009)[edit]

West End (2009–2016)[edit]

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Broadway (2011–2013)[