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Article: national's winner War Horse Alex
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 28, 2007
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The powers-that-be at the National Theatre clearly take a rather
robust view of what constitutes suitable entertainment for children
in the run-up to Christmas. Last year they gave them Coram Boy,
which featured a horrifyingly realistic hanging and a number of new-
born babies being butchered or buried alive.
This year's festive treat is War Horse, which offers a gritty,
uncompromising account of how a young man and his horse fare on the
Western Front during the First World War. There is a scene of a
cavalry division being blown to pieces that recalled for me the
carnage of the IRA bomb blast that ripped the Blues and Royals to
pieces in London in 1982.
Nick Stafford's adaptation of Michael ...