Sundown

A full and very busy day at work, a very quick dinner and then a wonderful evening at our local cinema being totally absorbed, captivated, stunned and emotional watching a National Theatre Live streaming of Warhorse. It was superb and after the interval we were treated to an interview with Michael Morpurgo and one of the Directors, Marianne Elliott. Mr Morpurgo telling us about how his story was first conceived ..... in front of a log fire in the Duke of York pub in the small village of Iddesleigh in Devon in the Winter of 1980. There he had a conversation with an old soldier from the First World War about how he found himself in the trenches of Flanders. Other men in the village - including a cavalryman - told him more about the commaraderie and the pity, and from that meeting the story emerged. Marianne told us about the history and the making of the amazing puppets (the inventors of which must have had a great knowledge and love of horses); she explained about the incredible lighting and how even with just such simple staging the whole has culminated in such a dramatic and highly successful long running production.

Now pleasantly tired after all that emotion, I'm off to bed - perchance to dream of Joey!

Zzzzzzz .......