War Horse UK & Ireland tour full casting announced | West End Theatre (2024)

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Where is War Horse Touring 2025? ›

The new dates and venues for 2025 are; New Victoria Theatre, Woking (14 – 25 January), Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin (29 January – 1 February), Grand Opera House, Belfast (4 – 15 February), The Regent Theatre, Stoke (4 – 8 March), Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (11 – 22 March), Theatre Royal Glasgow (25 March – 5 April ...

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Opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 5th September 2024, the show will then travel across the UK, touring through to 2026. Additional 2025 dates and venues to be announced are: Leeds Grand Theatre (19th August - 6th September). Edinburgh Festival Theatre (2nd - 11th October).

The forthcoming tour, led by Tom Morris with revival director Katie Henry, will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre September 5–14 and subsequently play The Lowry, Salford (September 18–28) Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (October 8–19), The Marlowe, Canterbury (October 22–November 2), Sunderland Empire (November 5–16), ...

War Horse Dartmoor Filming Locations

In the film, the main character Albert brings up Joey the horse on Narracott Farm, which is actually Ditsworthy Warren House – a grade II listed cottage on the southwest edge of Dartmoor. Other filming locations include Meavy as a local village, Sheepstor, and Burrator Reservoir.

The book, WARRIOR: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse (published 1934) and documentary: War Horse: The Real Story (TV Movie 2012) is the extraordinary and deeply moving story of the million British horses that served in WWI. The true story is more epic than the Spielberg feature film.

Joey and Topthorn have survived years of hard service in the German army, much longer than most horses, but Topthorn finally succumbs to exhaustion and dies.

Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford and directed by Tom Morris, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness.

War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought "they must be mad" to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; but the play was a great success.

War Horse premiered at the National Theatre in 2007, going on to win the 2008 Olivier Awards for Set Design and Choreography. Due to popular demand it was revived on the South Bank in 2008, before transferring to the New London Theatre.

Where is War Horse showing in 2024? ›

The previously announced dates include New Wimbledon Theatre (5 – 14 September 2024), The Lowry, Salford (18 – 28 September 2024) Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (8 – 19 October 2024), The Marlowe, Canterbury (22 October – 2 November 2024), Sunderland Empire (5 – 16 November 2024), Theatre Royal Plymouth (26 November – ...

Both horses and their riders survive, but Trooper Warren and Captain Stewart are taken as Prisoners of War by the Germans, and Topthorn and Joey now belong to the German Army as ambulance horses. They are kept on a nearby farm and are hailed as heroes.

World War I ends, and Joey is ordered to be auctioned because only the horses of officers will return home. Albert's comrades raise a collection to bid for the horse against the local butcher. The auction is won by Emilie's grandfather, who implies that she has died and the horse is all he has left of her.

War Horse is suitable for theatregoers aged 10 and older.

They are also working on a new studio album scheduled for early 2025. Due to the band's schedule, the show at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, will be MANOWAR's ONLY show in the United States. Tickets will go on sale on Wed, December 20, 2023, at 10 AM EST at Kings Theatre's website. Posted in News.

In the next scene , the horses are taken from their farm to be sold . 3. How much is the horse eventually sold for? The horse is eventually sold for 30 guineas.

By 1918 he had seen action in the battles of the Somme, Ypres, Aras and Cambrai. That moving final request was fulfilled when Blackie died years later, in 1942, and was buried in Halewood, Liverpool, at the site of a horse sanctuary where he was seeing out his final days.