{"id":998,"date":"2019-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/war-horse-play-coming-australia-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"war-horse-play-coming-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/stage\/war-horse-play-coming-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018War Horse\u2019 The Play Is Coming To Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct from a sold out season in London, the award winning theatrical production of <em>War Horse<\/em> is making its way to Australian shores.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the beloved Michael Morpurgo novel, and the inspiration for the film adaptation, <em>War Horse<\/em> tells a powerfully moving story of courage, loyalty and friendship between a young boy called Albert and his horse Joey, set against the backdrop of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"682\" width=\"1024\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-media-original nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/warhorse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hailed by <em>Time Magazine<\/em> as \u2018a landmark theatre event\u2019, this remarkable and imaginative drama filled with stirring music and songs&nbsp;is a show of phenomenal inventiveness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At its heart are the astonishing life-sized puppets created by South Africa\u2019s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to life on stage. 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