![]() ![]() ![]() When Handspring came over from South Africa, I took the puppeteers down to Devon and we spent some time on a farm, so they could get a sense of what horses are like. It was worked by three men and I remember feeling so moved by this creature, how it somehow breathed life. Tom knew I wasn't convinced, so he invited me to London to see a video of Handspring Puppets in action – a giraffe. I thought to myself: there is no way that puppets can enact the seriousness of the first world war. But then they told me the bad news: they wanted to use puppets. ![]() He rang me up and told me he wanted to make War Horse into a play. But then his mother heard me on Desert Island Discs, wittering on about this book I had written. He didn't find anything he liked for quite some time. Tom was determined to do a show with Handspring Puppets, but because of its talent for lifesize animal puppets he needed something with an animal hero. ![]()
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