"War Horse (film) War Horse is a 2011 war drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name and its 2007 play adaptation. The film's ensemble cast includes Jeremy Irvine (in his film acting debut), Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Niels Arestrup, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, and Peter Mullan. Set before and during World War I, it tells of the journey of Joey, a bay Thoroughbred horse raised by British teenager Albert (Irvine), as he is"
"written by 38 authors. Morpurgo's story was published in the ""Water"" collection. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Morpurgo, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 300+ works in 1,000+ publications in 25 languages and 55,000+ library holdings. Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ""War Horse"" (1982). His work is noted for its ""magical storytelling"", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for"
"BBC short has been filmed. Stafford was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Roehampton University from 2003–06 and at the University of Southampton from 2007–09. Stafford's first novel, ""Armistice"", was published in 2009. All were produced for BBC Radio 4. Nick Stafford Nick Stafford (born Nicholas Thomas, 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer. He is best known for writing the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel ""War Horse"", which garnered him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2008, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2011. Stafford trained at Rose Bruford College"
"Nick Stafford Nick Stafford (born Nicholas Thomas, 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer. He is best known for writing the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel ""War Horse"", which garnered him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2008, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2011. Stafford trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, and his first professionally produced play was commissioned in 1987 by the Half Moon Young People's Theatre, where Stafford was writer-in-residence. He also got commissions from other small companies, before going to the Young Vic, also"
"Whitbread Book Award in 1982. The book has also been made into a play adapted by Nick Stafford. The play, also called ""War Horse"", was staged at the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre in London. The production opened on 17 October 2007 and was met with critical acclaim – its use of life-size puppets of horses from the Handspring Puppet Company won an Olivier Award, Evening Standard Theatre Award and London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for design. In February 2010 it was revealed that the play would transfer to Broadway in New York City, and has since been seen in separate"
"Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ""War Horse"" (1982). His work is noted for its ""magical storytelling"", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or World War I. Morpurgo became the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005. Morpurgo was born in 1943 as Michael Andrew Bridge; his biological father was actor Tony Van Bridge."
"naturally as the genuine articles. In no time at all, they become characters as rounded and complex as any of the humans on stage.""""Time"" magazine ranked the play as its top choice among all theatre productions in 2011. ""The Wall Street Journal""'s Terry Teachout praised the puppetry, but gave mixed reactions to the play: ""The fundamental flaw of 'War Horse' is that Nick Stafford, who wrote the script 'in association' (that's how the credit reads) with South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company, has taken a book that was written for children and tried to give it the expressive weight of a"
"versions have been made of ""Friend or Foe"" (1981), ""Private Peaceful"" (2012) and ""Why the Whales Came"" (1989), the latter also being adapted to a stage play. ""My Friend Walter"" (1988) 'Purple Penguins' (2000) and ""Out of the Ashes"" (2001) have been adapted for television. ""War Horse"" has been adapted as a radio broadcast and as a stage play, premiering at the National Theatre, London, on 17 October 2007, with the horses played by life-sized horse puppets horses designed and built by the Handspring Puppet Company. The show transferred to the West End on 28 March 2009, and on 15"
"Farm Boy (novel) Farm Boy is a novel by Michael Morpurgo, best known as being the sequel to the popular novel ""War Horse"". The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Pavilion Books Limited and is illustrated by Michael Foreman. It was not initially planned for Morpurgo to write a sequel to ""War Horse"", but the story was inspired after receiving many enquiries about what happens to Joey, a horse in service of the Army (the main character from ""War Horse"") after the Great War. In an article in ChronicleLive Michael Morpurgo also stated that his"
"War I – the novel was also adapted into a hit play in London which is still running there, as well as on Broadway. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, with whom DreamWorks made a distribution deal in 2009, ""War Horse"" was the first of four consecutive Spielberg films released by Disney. ""War Horse"" received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Spielberg next directed the historical drama film ""Lincoln"", starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's bestseller """","
"DreamWorks Pictures and released worldwide by Touchstone Pictures, ""War Horse"" became a box-office success and was met with positive reviews. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, two Golden Globe Awards and five BAFTAs. In 1912, a teenage boy named Albert Narracott (Jeremy Irvine) from Devon, England, witnesses the birth of a bay Thoroughbred foal and subsequently watches with admiration the growth of the young horse. Much to the dismay of his mother Rose (Emily Watson), his father Ted (Peter Mullan) buys the colt at an auction, outbidding their landlord Lyons (David Thewlis) and despite them"
"as writer-in-residence. His first play there, ""The Snow Queen"", ran for two years. He has had several plays produced at the National Theatre and at Birmingham Rep. Stafford's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel ""War Horse"" was first produced in London in 2007, where it is still running; other productions are running in New York and will open next year (2012) in Toronto, Canada. Five of his plays have been published by Faber and Faber. Stafford also has had several plays produced on BBC Radio 4, and has been commissioned to write movies and television drama; none of these bar a"
"book, so many tourists have come to the village of Iddesleigh, where Morpurgo lives, and asked to see the painting in the village hall, that in 2011 Morpurgo commissioned an artist to paint just such an oil painting to hang there. He used equine artist Ali Bannister, who acted as the chief ""equine hair and make-up"" artist on the Steven Spielberg film of the book and who also drew the sketches of Joey seen in the film. An exhibition entitled ""War Horse: Fact & Fiction"" opened in October 2011 at the National Army Museum exploring the novel alongside real-life stories"
"wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. A tie-in book by Steven Spielberg, titled ""War Horse"", was published by Harper Collins on 27 December 2011. The horse portrait painted by Ali Bannister now hangs in the Iddesleigh Town Hall in the approximate location described in the introduction to Morpurgo's novel: In the old school they use now for the Village Hall, below the clock that has stood always at one minute past ten, hangs a small dusty painting of a horse. He stands, a splendid red bay with a remarkable white cross emblazoned on his forehead and with four perfectly matched white"
"Indian Horse Indian Horse is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012. Wagamese's best known work, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013 and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of ""Canada Reads"". The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy who survives the Indian residential school system and grows up to become a star ice hockey player. It follows Saul on his journey to self-awareness and self-acceptance, taking the reader along so that his painfully-grained insights also become the reader's."
"to mark the centenary of the Armistice.The production will play in the Lyttleton Theatre, opposed to its original stage - the Olivier, to comply with traditional touring logistics in a proscenium arch theatre. Steven Spielberg directed the United States movie adaptation of ""War Horse"", released on 25 December 2011, with a screenplay written by Richard Curtis and Lee Hall based on the novel. The film was shot entirely in England: in Devon, at Stratfield Saye in Berkshire, Wisley in Surrey, the Luton Hoo Estate in Bedfordshire, and at Castle Combe in Wiltshire. It was filmed naturalistically, with over 100 real"
"was announced in September 2015, that War Horse was scheduled to close on 12 March 2016. By the time it closes the play will have played more than 3,000 performances. As a co-production of the National Theatre and Lincoln Center, ""War Horse"" began preview performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City on 15 March 2011, and opened on Broadway 14 April. The British creative team are joined by an all-American cast. Seth Numrich originated the leading role of Albert. His Private Romeo costar, Matt Doyle, played Billy. Stephen Plunkett played Lieutenant Nicholls. The production was only scheduled"
"Horse (1965 film) Horse is a 1965 underground film directed by Andy Warhol, written by Ronald Tavel, and starring Edie Sedgwick, Gregory Battcock, Tosh Carillo, Ondine, Norman Glick, Daniel Cassidy Jr., and Larry Latrae (Latreille). Warhol himself makes a cameo appearance in the film. A photo from ""Horse"" published in Parker Tyler's book ""Underground Film"" (Grove Press, 1969; reprint DaCapo Press, 1995) shows all the male performers dressed only in jockstraps. The main event is a strip poker game in which an outlaw, his sheriff captor, and a pal join in. The game ends with the outlaw (Tosh Carrillo) getting"
"A Horse's Tale A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. ""Harper's Magazine"" originally published the story in two installments in August and September 1906. Clemens wrote the story after receiving a request from actress Minnie Maddern Fiske to assist in her drive against bullfighting. ""Harper's"" published the story as a 153-page book in October 1907. Clemen's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to"
"of 88 out of 100 based on the opinions of 21 critics. In addition, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of Handspring Puppet Company won the Special Tony Award for ""War Horse"". In addition, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of Handspring Puppet Company won the Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award, for ""Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for ""War Horse"""". Malone, Toby, and Christopher J. Jackman. ""Adapting War Horse: Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play"". London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Millar, Mervyn. "" The Horse's Mouth: Staging Morpurgo's War Horse "". London: Oberon Books, 2008. War Horse (play) War Horse"
"March 2011, the show premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. ""War Horse"" was also adapted as a 2011 British film directed by Steven Spielberg. Composer Stephen Barlow created a musical adaptation of ""Rainbow Bear"", narrated by his wife Joanna Lumley. This was subsequently presented as a ballet by the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain in August 2010. In a January 2014 article, Morpurgo stated ""as we begin to mark the centenary of the first world war, we should honour those who died, most certainly, and gratefully too, but we should never glorify... Come each November over the"
"Horse"", was directed by Stephen Campanelli and premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Indian Horse Indian Horse is a novel by Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012. Wagamese's best known work, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013 and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of ""Canada Reads"". The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy who survives the Indian residential school system and grows up to become a star ice hockey player. It follows Saul on his journey to self-awareness"
"Harry Horse Richard Horne, whose pen name was Harry Horse (9 May 1960, Coventry – 10 January 2007, Papil, West Burra), was an English author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as lead singer of the band Swamptrash. Born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, he moved to Edinburgh in 1978, where he adopted his pen name. His first book, ""Ogopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster"", was published in 1983. He also wrote ""The Last..."" series of books; this included ""The Last Polar Bears"", which was adapted into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV and a touring theatre"
"Rocking Horse Road in North and South magazine in August 2007, Warwick Roger said that 'Nixon writes beautifully. He gets the style and timbre of teenagers just right...Nixon has fulfilled the promise he showed with last year's book of short stories, fish'n'chip shop song.' Nixon's theatrical scripts include an adaption of Lloyd Jones' novel The Book of Fame and of Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. Nixon's play, The Raft, was performed as part of the 2007 Christchurch Arts Festival. His plays for children are The Little Mermaid (2000), ""The Reluctant Dragon"" (2000), and Beauty and the Beast (2000)."
"to have a limited run, closing on 26 June 2011, but soon became open-ended after strong critical reception and ticket sales. The production received five Tony Awards at the 2011 ceremony, including Best Play. ""War Horse"" closed on 6 January 2013, after 718 performances and 33 previews. The show opened a separate Canadian production in Toronto, Ontario, on 28 February 2012 at Mirvish Productions' Princess of Wales Theatre, following previews from 10 February. Alex Furber starred as Albert. The production closed on 6 January 2013. The show's first national tour of the United States previewed at the State University's Morrison"
"original stage adaptation of Nick Hornby's ""Fever Pitch"", which ran at The Arts Theatre London in 1995. He played the role of Ted Narracott in War Horse (play) at the New London Theatre from May 2013 to March 2014 and also in the National Theatre Live broadcast on 27 February 2014 and subsequent Encore screenings. He co-wrote the film South West 9 and directed the award winning short film Cregan for Screen South. North is a supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion FC, and has co-written two books about the club, ""Build a Bonfire"" (Mainstream Publishing 1997). and ""We Want"
"beaten up by the others for cheating. At one point, one of the men sits on the real horse (a stallion) hired for the day by Warhol. Horse (1965 film) Horse is a 1965 underground film directed by Andy Warhol, written by Ronald Tavel, and starring Edie Sedgwick, Gregory Battcock, Tosh Carillo, Ondine, Norman Glick, Daniel Cassidy Jr., and Larry Latrae (Latreille). Warhol himself makes a cameo appearance in the film. A photo from ""Horse"" published in Parker Tyler's book ""Underground Film"" (Grove Press, 1969; reprint DaCapo Press, 1995) shows all the male performers dressed only in jockstraps. The main"
"the same theatre attended by the Kaiser and Hitler. Someone called the play ""the greatest anthem to peace"" ever seen on the stage. The Dutch premiere of ""War Horse"" opened at Amsterdam's Theatre Carré on 30 May 2014, and ran through to 28 September 2014. After Amsterdam, ""War Horse"" toured to five further venues in Rotterdam, Breda, Groningen, Apeldoorn and Heerlen. The South African premiere of ""War Horse"" (billed in some media as a 'homecoming') opened at the Teatro at Montecasino in Johannesburg on 22 October 2014, and played through to 30 November 2014. The South African tour concluded with"
"of the Horse"" (1994) and ""The Track of the Wind"" (1997). All three books made the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist and ""The Wheel of Surya"" was special runner-up. ""Coram Boy"" won the 2000 Whitbread Prize as Children's Book of the Year. It is set in the 18th century, based on the Foundling Hospital established in London by sea Captain Thomas Coram. According to a local newspaper, the story ""has links to Gloucestershire."" ""Coram Boy"" has been adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson and produced by the Royal National Theatre in 2005–2006 - garnering Edmundson an Olivier Award -"
"a transfer to Cape Town's Artscape Opera House on 12 December, where it ran until January 4, 2015. A Chinese adaptation of ""War Horse"", entitled 战马, was announced in late 2014, directed by Alex Sims and Li Dong, and fully translated into Mandarin. The production premiered at Beijing's National Theatre Company of China on September 4, 2015, and ran until October 31. After the Beijing stop, the play toured to theatres in Shanghai (November 15, 2015 - January 17, 2016), Guangzhou (March 8 to May 3, 2016), as well as stops in Heilongjiang and Tianjin. Following the success of the"
"War Game (novel) War Game is a children's novel about World War I written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Pavilion in 1993. It features four young English soldiers and includes football with German soldiers during the Christmas truce, ""temporary relief from the brutal and seemingly endless struggle in the trenches"". ""War Game"" won the 1993 Nestlé Children's Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and overall. Foreman was a commended runner up for the annual Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the best children's book illustration by a British subject. In 2001 the book was adapted"
"Conquering Horse Conquering Horse is Frederick Manfred's first novel in a five-volume series he called ""The Buckskin Man Tales"". It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region. Film director/writer Michael Cimino and producer Michael Gruskoff attempted to adapt Manfred's novel to film, but the project,which was in development at Universal in 1970, was tabled in 1971 because of budget issues. At one point in 1979, he reached a deal with United Artists to make the film, under the condition Heaven's Gate was a hit. The movie bombed,"
"Wooden Horse"", in 1909, Walpole wrote prolifically, producing at least one book every year. He was a spontaneous story-teller, writing quickly to get all his ideas on paper, seldom revising. His first novel to achieve major success was his third, ""Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"", a tragicomic story of a fatal clash between two schoolmasters. During the First World War he served in the Red Cross on the Russian-Austrian front, and worked in British propaganda in Petrograd and London. In the 1920s and 1930s Walpole was much in demand not only as a novelist but also as a lecturer on"