The West End production of War Horse will celebrate its 2,000th performance tonight.
To celebrate, producers have announced that the National Theatre's production has extended its booking period until 14th February 2015, with 130,000 new tickets going on sale on Monday 27th January 2014.
Now celebrating its seventh year on the London stage, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book continues to play to sell-out houses at the New London Theatre. The UK touring production is currently playing at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. War Horse is also playing on tour in North America and in Berlin and next month, on 27th February, the production will broadcast live for the first time to cinemas worldwide as part of National Theatre Live.
War Horse, which has now been seen by over 2 million people in London and by over 4.6 million worldwide, is directed byMarianne Elliott and Tom Morris, designed by Rae Smith, with puppet direction, design and fabrication by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler for Handspring Puppet Company, lighting by Paule Constable, and movement and horse choreography by Toby Sedgwick, with video design by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer, songmaker John Tams, music by Adrian Sutton and sound by Christopher Shutt. War Horse received its world premiere at the National Theatre in October 2007.
From 17th March 2014 the production will star Jack Loxton (Albert Narracott) alongside: Gareth Aled (Joey/Topthorn Head), Antony Antunes (Joey/Topthorn Hind), Caroline Bowman (Topthorn Hind), Clare Louise Connolly (Emilie/Baby Joey), Sophie Crawford (Songperson/musician), Ewen Cummins (Chapman Carter / Soldat Schmidt), Christopher Dickins (Sergeant Fine/Col Strauss), Drew Dillon (Rudi), Hasan Dixon (Captain Stewart), James Donovan (Joey/Topthorn Heart), Matthew Flynn (Ted), Nicholas Hart (Joey Head), Pernilla Holland (Annie Gilbert), Ian Houghton (Sergeant Allan/Manfred), Elan James (Klebb), Richard Katz (Friedrich Muller), Chris Kelham (Dr Schweyk/Vet Martin), Jason Langley (Captain Nicholls), Dylan Llewellyn (Billy Narracott), Andrew London (Joey Heart), Brian Lonsdale (Thomas Bone), Abigail Matthews (Baby Joey), Tony McGeever (David Taylor), David Nellist (Sergeant Thunder), Will Palmer (Joey/Topthorn Head), Lewis Peploe (Joey/Topthorn Hind), Jack Sandle (Priest/Gefreiter Karl), Lisa Stevenson (Rose Narracott), Julian Stolzenberg (John Greig), Michael Taibi (Joey/Topthorn Heart), James Alexander Taylor (Topthorn Heart), Emma Thornett (Baby Joey/Paulette), Sam Wilmott (Joey Hind), Simon Wolfe (Arthur Narracott) and Miles Yekinni (Topthorn Head).
War Horse is produced in the West End by the National Theatre and National Angels.
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Attended 2000th performance last evening, absolutely stunning made all the more special by appearance of Michael Morpurgo talking and reading to audience at end of show.
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