Puppetry and pageantry combine to bring Morpugo's War Horse to life

THE National Theatre’s staging of War Horse has been universally lauded as a thrilling, magnificent and moving epic.

Since opening in 2007, it has broken records on the West End, toured the world to acclaim, played for over 750 nights on Broadway, and been turned into a Steven Spielberg film.

The life-sized puppets of the Handspring Theatre Company are the most striking and original thing in the stage production, but War Horse began as a simple children’s story by Michael Morpurgo.