War Horse is a work about friendship, courage, tenacity and faith. It is a growth novel dedicated to children by Michael Morpurgo, a best-selling writer of British children's and youth literature, in 1982.
War Horse is a well-known "famous novel" in Britain. With the theme of World War I, War Horse tells a touching story between people and horses. Although it is a story of the war years, it shows the beauty of human nature, the harmony of all things, the universal concept of the world and equality without a trace of blood.
The novel is an excellent literary work with a warm and touching style and full of youthful and inspirational elements. It won the Silver Award of the most famous book award in Britain (now the Costa Prize for Literature) that year, and has been adapted into stage plays and radio plays many times since then, which is all the rage in Britain.
After the success of the novel, Mo Boge wanted to adapt it into a script for a stage play, but it is extremely difficult to adapt the story from the perspective of a horse to human beings. Therefore, after five years' efforts, the adaptation of famous British producers Simon Qian Ning William and Moburg failed.
In p>27, Nick Stafford's novel was successfully adapted and rehearsed for a stage play. In such a work featuring "War Horse", the British National Theatre boldly tried to combine various art forms and cooperate with the South African Puppet Company, especially choosing a unique craft from Mali, Africa and the way of "operating puppets" to vividly display the protagonist "Joey" of "War Horse" on the stage. This unprecedented process has gone through five years of running-in and experiment, which has also given "Joey" a brand-new life and vitality, making it the absolute protagonist of the play, and "Joey" is also known as the "perfect device" and has attracted the attention and love of audiences all over the world with its magical imagination and rich expressive force.
On October 17th, 27, The War Horse, which was created for many years, successfully premiered at the Royal Oliver Theatre in London, England. As soon as it came out, it conquered all the audience with its touching story, unique angle and shocking visual effect. In addition to marveling at the magical imagination and rich expressive force of "War Horse" on the stage, I am also amazed at the artistic quality of this play.
"War Horse" has won the Critics Circle Theatre Awards, the Lawrence Olivier Awards for Best Scene Design and the Best Drama Score. In 211, it won all five awards, namely, the highest award for American dramas and musicals, the best drama, the best drama director, the best drama set, the best drama lighting and the best drama sound in the Tony Awards, which is known as the "Oscar in the stage industry".
On October 12th, 29, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, went to the theater to watch the performance. This was the first time that the Queen and Prince visited a private theater in four years, and they met "Joey" cordially after the performance. The Queen's affirmation has further endowed this stage play with far-reaching significance, and also highlighted the important cultural position of War Horse in British society and even the world.