Warhorse
WarHorse
-Based on the novel by Michael Murpugo, Adapted by Nick Stafford, in association with the Handspring Puppet Company
Based on the novel by Michael Murpugo but adapted by Nick Stafford, there powerful, dramatic ‘WarHorse’ tells the story of a Horse that goes to battle and gets passed through many different owners, and how the Horse lives though the First World War. Everything is spoken apart from the song women narrates the story as it goes along by singing.
On arrival in the theatre forum, the first thing that my eyes were drawn to was the minimalistic, bare stage where there what looks like a ripped paper strip all the way across the top of the stage, looking like a banner which is a brechtian technique. To include there was also a simple box on stage, which was centre stage right. Then what caught my attention next was the lighting, which had freznel and flood lights on at that point in time which gave off a bright white light, giving the whole theatre neutral atmosphere until play is about to start. The floor of the stage looked like tarmac/concrete giving it a hard solid feel, making the stage look and feel cold, dull and bare. The whole stage made everyone in the audience wonder what was going on and guess for what was going to happen on stage when the play starts.
When Joey the horse first came on stage, the lights up with a bright white light, Joey seen as a foul, with three small women controlling the puppet, Joey was moving around like he was in a field, making all the necessary noises to make the puppet seem real, when he did just walk around on stage it made me feel so happy that he was happy and that I could feel what he was feeling through the sense of body movement which was jumpy and moving about everywhere making him and myself feel free, you could also tell that Joey was happy and young because he was only small puppet to start with but when his ears moved around listening to what going on in the field, that created a
-Based on the novel by Michael Murpugo, Adapted by Nick Stafford, in association with the Handspring Puppet Company
Based on the novel by Michael Murpugo but adapted by Nick Stafford, there powerful, dramatic ‘WarHorse’ tells the story of a Horse that goes to battle and gets passed through many different owners, and how the Horse lives though the First World War. Everything is spoken apart from the song women narrates the story as it goes along by singing.
On arrival in the theatre forum, the first thing that my eyes were drawn to was the minimalistic, bare stage where there what looks like a ripped paper strip all the way across the top of the stage, looking like a banner which is a brechtian technique. To include there was also a simple box on stage, which was centre stage right. Then what caught my attention next was the lighting, which had freznel and flood lights on at that point in time which gave off a bright white light, giving the whole theatre neutral atmosphere until play is about to start. The floor of the stage looked like tarmac/concrete giving it a hard solid feel, making the stage look and feel cold, dull and bare. The whole stage made everyone in the audience wonder what was going on and guess for what was going to happen on stage when the play starts.
When Joey the horse first came on stage, the lights up with a bright white light, Joey seen as a foul, with three small women controlling the puppet, Joey was moving around like he was in a field, making all the necessary noises to make the puppet seem real, when he did just walk around on stage it made me feel so happy that he was happy and that I could feel what he was feeling through the sense of body movement which was jumpy and moving about everywhere making him and myself feel free, you could also tell that Joey was happy and young because he was only small puppet to start with but when his ears moved around listening to what going on in the field, that created a