Who wrote the book, now a successful play, 'War Horse'?
War Horse (play) War Horse (play) War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by children's writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought "they must be mad" to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; nonetheless, the play was a success. The play's West End and Broadway productions are directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris; it features life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, with "horse choreography" by Toby Sedgwick. A captured foal is brought to Devon in the United Kingdom to be auctioned. Hoping
War Horse (play) 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