War Horse, the award-winning UK stage production that features groundbreaking puppetry work by Cape Town's Handspring Puppet Company, will make its South African premiere later this year, the Artscape Theatre said in a statement on Tuesday.
The production, which has been seen by more than 5-million people since it opened at the National Theatre in London in 2007, is based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo. It tells the story of a young boy and his horse, taken into service by the British Army during the First World War.
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