War Horse Review

If you haven't yet seen War Horse then go see it now! I missed out on seeing it at the National but was not disappointed with the production at the New London Theatre in any way. I had heard and read many great reviews of War Horse and all of them were true. This is such a heart wrenching story about the lives of the horses in the first world war. I did not realise how many poor animals perished in such awful conditions until seeing his production and what they actually endured if they survived.



War Horse is the tale of one horse in particular, Joey and his owner Albert. You follow Joey's life from being a foal to being sold to the cavalry where he later finds himself in the thick of the fighting and eventually ending up in no mans land where he has to be rescued. Albert embarks on an epic quest to find his beloved horse, one which will bring a tear to your eye.



War Horse is made all that more remarkable because of the use of life size puppets which have been created to represent all the animals. By the end of the play you have forgotten that the puppets are actually being worked by people as you are so engrossed by the story as well as the actual movements of the puppets which seemed to me so life like at times - really quite remarkable. I also thought the ator playing Albert was very good.



Please do not be put off by the fact that this play is about war or even horses. It really is very special and I would recommend it to anyone.