Companions (play)
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Companions (in the English original War Horse ) is a play by the British playwright Nick Stafford , an adaptation of the novel Fateful Companions (in the original also War Horse ) by Michael Morpurgo . The German version of the piece was written by John von Düffel .
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The play was developed for the National Theater and premiered there on October 17, 2007. After two successful seasons, it was transferred to the West End in 2009 and ran from March 2009 at the New London Theater . Originally, the author of the novel, Michael Morpurgo, thought you had to be “crazy” to try and make a play out of his 1982 bestseller. However, the piece quickly became a huge success.
The West End and Broadway productions were directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris , and the horse puppets were choreographed by Toby Sedgwick . An integral part of the theater production are around 20 theater puppets from the Handspring Puppet Company from Cape Town. Handspring received a Tony Award for these figures in New York in 2011 .
From October 20, 2013 to September 28, 2014, the German-language premiere was shown at the Theater des Westens in Berlin , in a co-production by Stage Entertainment and the British Royal National Theater . For the main roles, the television actor Heinz Hoenig could be engaged as father Ted, Philipp Lind for the role of Albert, Matthias Renger as Billy and Silke Geertz as Rose. A completely new team of Puppeteers was also found for the Berlin performance and began rehearsing at the end of July 2013.
After the great success of the stage adaptation, a film adaptation of the same name followed in 2011, directed by Steven Spielberg .
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In a village in Devon , at the outbreak of World War I, Joey, the beloved horse of farmer's son Albert Narracott, is sold to the cavalry . Joey is shipped to France and an extraordinary odyssey begins. Joey befriends Topthorn, another army horse, is captured under enemy fire and soon also serves in the German army. But Albert can't forget his horse Joey. Not old enough to join the army, he goes on a dangerous mission to find him. He fights his way through the trenches and gas attacks of World War I in search of his horse and is eventually wounded. Albert and Joey find their way back together in an infirmary. They return to Devon together.
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- ↑ Michael Morpurgo: Adapt and survive . In: The Guardian , August 21, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- ↑ Dave Itzkoff: 'War Horse' Corrals Its American Cast . In: The New York Times . December 20, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/musical-in-berlin-wartet-die-zukunft,10809150,26866290.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Patrick Healy: Making Horses Gallop and Audiences Cry . In: nytimes.com . July 13, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2011.