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MASTERPIECESTEARSTake a handkerchief when you catch the stageversion of Michael Morpurgo’s classic children’sbook War Horse (p. 75). A heartbreaking tale, itexplores the unbreakable bond between ayoung boy and his horse during World War I.When the horse is sold to the cavalry, theboy tries to find his four-legged friendby lying about his real age and enlisting.This award-winning show featuresingenious life-sized horses, as imagined bythe Handspring Puppet Company.Mark Rylance (pictured right,The Other Boleyn Girl) headstwo productions of WilliamShakespeare plays staged withall-male actors, as they wouldhave been performed in his era.The historical tragedy Richard III(p. 74) charts the rise and fall of aMachiavellian 15th-century Englishking. Meanwhile, the romanticcomedy Twelfth Night (p. 75) costarsStephen Fry (above, Wilde).INDISCRETIONSRufus Sewell (pictured left, The Illusionist) andKristin Scott Thomas (Gosford Park) are amongthe stars of Harold Pinter’s drama Old Times(from 12 Jan, p. 74). Conflicting memories andsexual tensions come to the surface whena married couple are visited by an old friendand reminisce about the past.January 2013|LONDON PLANNER|visitlondon.com |13