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War Horse

May 2024

  • Seth Numrich with his hand resting on the head of a giant puppet horse.

    Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

    An ex-ENO artistic head and the co-director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis

February 2024

  • A scene from War Horse with a horse puppet

    National Theatre’s War Horse to return to UK stages after five-year absence

    Exclusive: Director says he is interested to see response of new audiences at a time of growing instability

October 2023

  • ‘Why? I’m not Roald Dahl’ … Michael Morpurgo in Iddesleigh.

    ‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

    As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

July 2022

  • Dog day afternoon … Yana Penrose, Emma Lucia, Danny Collins and Ben Thompson bring Perdi and Pongo to life.

    No strings attached: the new wave of puppetry storming London’s West End

  • ‘As a queer storyteller, there’s pressure to do this harrowing period of time justice’ … Jack Holden in Cruise.

    ‘It’s the Odyssey – the islands are Soho clubs’: Jack Holden on his 80s drama Cruise

May 2020

  • James Corden in One Man Two Guvnors by Richard Bean at the National Theatre.

    The world looks to British theatre. So let's get it back on track…

    Oliver Dowden
    The culture secretary calls for innovative solutions to revive the performing arts after a ‘knockout blow’ as UK emerges from lockdown

September 2019

  • Toby Olié controls a puppet in War Horse.

    Strung out: the afterlife of War Horse's Joey and other puppet stars

    When the curtain falls on a marionette’s show, they’re put out to pasture, given a facelift – or turned into burglar deterrents

September 2017

  • War Horse at the New London theatre

    Five of the best… theatre shows
    War Horse and Grand Finale: this week’s best UK theatre and dance

    Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris’s staging of the children’s novel returns, while Hofesh Shechter’s new show imagines an anarchic apocalypse

July 2017

  • Michael Morpurgo with the puppet Joey

    'A series of lucky accidents' – Michael Morpurgo on the birth of a war horse

    From primary school teacher to author of a stage hit, the author is now subject of a V&A exhibition celebrating his work

April 2017

  • Nicholas Hytner

    Nicholas Hytner: ‘I’ve always thought of theatre as a cure for loneliness’

    The former National Theatre director talks about his new memoir and the launch of his latest venture, the Bridge – the capital’s first commercial theatre in 80 years

September 2016

  • The puppeteers in rehearsal for The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic

    War Horse director pulls the strings to stage puppet version of Victor Hugo tale

    Tom Morris is hoping to repeat his success with the first world war classic story in a new play at the Bristol Old Vic

July 2016

  • Rufus Norris photographed at the National Theatre by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review.

    Rufus Norris: ‘I’m not a visionary. I don’t have to have all the ideas’

    Eighteen months into his tenure, the National Theatre’s artistic head, a one-time painter and decorator, talks diversity, criticism and making a drama out of Brexit

May 2016

  • Edward Bond during a break for rehearsals of his new play Dea, at Sutton Theatres.

    Edward Bond: 'War Horse? Obscene. Downton? Spiteful'

    He has walked out of his own plays, been chased up the A1 by a director and thinks British drama is dead. Mark Lawson meets the magnificently irascible Edward Bond

January 2016

  • War Horse at the National Theatre

    Theatre blog
    Look before you leap into theatre's mainstream

    The extra funding and opportunities it offers are enticing, but the mainstream isn’t the place for everyone. Entering it often means diluting what made you radical or interesting in the first place

September 2015

  • War Horse at the National Theatre, London

    National Theatre to end War Horse despite runaway success

    Production has run for seven years and has made the NT £13.5m, but director Rufus Norris says it is time to put it out to pasture

February 2015

  • Helen Mirren as the Queen in The Audience

    New work makes up nearly two-thirds of all British theatre productions

    Numbers of shows and seats sold do well despite budget cuts as original material booms for first time for more than a century, survey finds

December 2014

  • Joey war horse trail

    Children's books
    Michael Morpurgo brings Joey home to Ypres

    Newsflash: The puppet star of War Horse goes to Belgium to mark the centenary of the Christmas truce in the first world war

October 2014

  • One Man, Two Guvnors

    Theatre blog
    Why the National Theatre must make itself a truly national service

    Residents of Detroit could have seen more of the NT last year than people living in Sunderland. Is so much touring overseas in the National's interests?

August 2014

  • Tear-jerker … the National Theatre’s production of War Horse

    How we made
    How we made War Horse

  • War Horse Prom

    War Horse Prom review – equine puppet hero distracts from the show's weaknesses

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