Warhorse (the play)

[callistotoni]

Check out http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125348552

Amazing puppets! Be sure to check out the clips (which, unfortunately, show more actor than puppet, but you still get the idea).

nightbocci gave me this book for Xmas because she knew about the play and had seen a clip on YouTube (or somewhere). If it comes to town she really wants to see it with me. Now, on the one hand, it looks like an amazing production. On the other hand, I read the book, and it is one of those children's animal books of the Depressing "People Are Scum"-genre. Really; you start with a foal being abused by a drunken abusive father, who then sells his son's beloved horse to the army for WWI, moves forward with an Animals Get Abused In War Everybody Dies Badly-plot. Except for the horse and the now-adult boy who, miraculously, live and come home because it's supposed to be a Children's Story and the author wasn't allowed to kill *everybody*. OK, maybe I'm being harsh. ;-)

Looking at the clips it's clear I couldn't make it through this show without sobbing though most of it. Don't know if I want to subject myself and others to that. Still, looks like a very good show!

Comments

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a Black Beauty derivative. Now there's a novel I found traumatic as a child. (And I threw a fit at my father after reading the opening of "The Horse Whisperer," which he'd given me as a Christmas present the year it came out.)

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

Those horses look wonderful! They look similar to an Elephant in the Aladdin show at Disneyland. That's a life-size elephant with 5 actors - one in each leg, one in the head - and is a mechanical marvel. Such cool technology!