⭐ WAR HORSE – NATIONAL THEATRE RETURN ANNOUNCED ⭐
The award-winning WAR HORSE will return to the National Theatre, it has been announced.
The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of WAR HORSE, based on Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel, returns to its original home, the Olivier stage, nearly two decades after its debut and following an acclaimed tour of the UK and Ireland.
Adapted by Nick Stafford and originally directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, WAR HORSE has become the most successful play in the history of the National Theatre, winning more than 25 major awards including the Tony Award for ‘Best Play’ and has been seen by over 8.8 million people worldwide.
This powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness, filled with
stirring music and songs and featuring ground-breaking puppetry by South Africa’s Handspring
Puppet Company, which brings breathing, galloping, charging, horses to thrilling life on stage and has inspired a generation of theatre-makers since its premiere in 2007.
At the outbreak of the First World War, young Albert’s beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Too young to enlist, Albert refuses to forget him, embarking on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of wartime France – determined to bring Joey home.
This tour revival of WAR HORSE is created by director Tom Morris with revival director Katie Henry, set & costume designer Rae Smith, puppet designer Adrian Kohler for Handspring Puppet Company, lighting designer Rob Casey, director of movement and horse choreography Toby Sedgwick, puppetry director Matthew Forbes, animation and projection designers Nicol Scott and Ben Pearcy for 59. Music is by Adrian Sutton with songmaker John Tams, sound designer
Christopher Shutt and music director Dom Coyote. Casting is by Jill Green CDG.
WAR HORSE will play the National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, running from 16th May – 30th July 2026.
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