Theatre review: War Horse

Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin

Michael Morpugo’s War Horse has been every writer’s dream of success: published as a children’s book in 1982, it was adapted for the stage in 2007, and filmed by Steven Spielberg in 2011.

The stage show, from London, has been greatly anticipated. It is the kind of show for which the Bord Gais Energy Theatre was designed, and it is difficult to imagine how any other theatre here could have coped with so massive a production.