He will be giving a performance of songs from
War Horse as well as more traditional and contemporary British folk songs along with tales and humour from his recent travels.
War Horse star taking to stage; MUSIC
Author Michael Morpurgo describes
War Horse as an "anthem for peace", although watching the action unfold against a dusky backdrop of exploding shells, zipping bullets, smoke and mustard gas, it's Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth that comes more readily to mind.
War Horse Scenes of destruction in anthem for peace; review: drama
At its heart are the magnificent
war horses themselves -- Joey, the equine hero of the story, and the thoroughbred Topthorn, both brought to life with extraordinary nuance and attention to detail by their teams of head, heart and hind puppeteers who remain ever visible and yet at the same time become invisible as we completely invest in the puppets as living, breathing entities.
REVIEW: War Horse returns to Liverpool's Empire to give audiences a night they won't forget; Has anyone managed to watch it through without feeling emotional?
War Horse would probably have not made it to the stage - or at least not been so successful as it has been - were it not for the truly astonishing life-sized 'horses' by South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company, who bring the animals to life.
Wondrous show dazzles on stage
"When my lovely fellow actors are doing their job it can be hard for me to concentrate as there are some really powerful scenes and I am looking at the reaction of the audience, many of who are in tears."
War Horse is based on the famous children's book of the same name by acclaimed author Michael Morpurgo.
Labour of love as actor brings War Horse to his hometown; The award-winning play War Horse comes to the region this month and one of its stars, who was born on Tyneside, tells Mike Kelly why it will be an especially emotional experience for him
Curve Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster said: "
War Horse is a landmark of contemporary British theatre, beautifully directed by Marianne Elliot and Tom Morris.
Trotting to Leicester... WAR HORSE The Curve, Leicester, September 17-October 12
The 10-year-old Irish Sports Horse mare travelled in to the city centre from her stables at Alcott Farm, near Alvechurch, Worcestershire, for a very special meet and greet with
War Horse's hero, Joey.
War Horse meets the real thing
Following eight record-breaking years in London's West End,
War Horse has now played in 11 countries around the world and been seen by over seven million people.
HORSE play! face to face with star of show
The National Theatre's acclaimed production of
War Horse arrives at The SEC Armadillo Glasgow from January 15 - February 2, 2019, as part of its national tour and we are giving you the chance to win one of 10 pairs of tickets.
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WHEN Birmingham-born actor Lewis Howard was a teenager he went to see the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel
War Horse. Amazed at what he was watching, Lewis little expected that ten years later he would be one of the puppeteers bringing that horse, Joey, to life for thousands of other theatre-goers.
As the horse's head I'm telling the audience what it's looking at, what it's thinking and what it's feeling; Midland actors tell DIANE PARKES what it takes to bring giant puppets to life in the acclaimed show War Horse
THE story of
War Horse was first conceived in front of the log fire in the The Duke of York pub in Iddesleigh (Devon) in the winter of 1980, after (or was it during?) a conversation with an old soldier from the First World War, Wilf Ellis, who first told me how it was to find himself as a young man in the trenches of Flanders.
For the play to go to Berlin was truly momentous, and timely too; Smash hit stage show War Horse is in Cardiff for a summer run as part of its 10th anniversary tour. Here, in his own words, author Michael Morpurgo reveals how the story came about
Seeing
War Horse on stage is the closest thing you'll get to witnessing a movie unfurl before your very eyes in real time.
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Ground-breaking puppetry work by South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company brings breathing, galloping horses to life on stage, helping make
War Horse the most successful play in the National Theatre's history.
War Horse gallops back into Yorkshire
IT WHEN his farmer dad Ted comes home with a foal called Joey, in
War Horse (BBC1, tomorrow, 2.05pm), young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) says he will train the animal to work the fields.
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