CHIO Aachen: Sensation in theatre WAR HORSE

20 June 2013

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The play “War Horse” has already delighted countless people in London and on Broadway in New York.  In 2011 the imaginative production won six prizes at the TONY AWARDS® in New York.  Before the sensational hit of the National Theatre of Great Britain celebrates its premiere in German language under the title GEFÄHRTEN in Berlin on October 20^th, 2013 at the traditional Stage Theater des Westens, it is stopping off at the CHIO Aachen 2013.  After all there couldn’t be a more appropriate setting for a play that focuses on the boundless friendship between a young man and his horse, than the World Equestrian Festival.  On Saturday evening, June 22^nd, the Aachen Symphony Orchestra will perform for the first time ever the “War Horse Suite”, written by the composer Adrian Geoffrey Sutton, during the “Horse & Symphony” concert, while the protagonist of the play, the horse called Joey, enters the Deutsche Bank Stadium.  The second performance will take place on June 29^th at 4.55 pm during the Prize of the AachenMünchener in the Main Stadium, in the break before the winning round.

GEFÄHRTEN tells the story about the deep friendship between the English farmer’s boy, Albert, and his beloved horse, Joey.  The start of the First World War separates the two friends, because Joey is sold to the army.  However, Albert doesn’t give up.  Courageous and determined, he sets off on the adventurous search for his best friend.

Life-size figures of horses come to life before the eyes of the spectators and whisk the crowd away into another world.  The interplay between the actors and the artistic horse figures of the South African Handspring Puppet Company are particularly fascinating and unique.  GEFÄHRTEN is based on the novel “War Horse“ by the British author of books for youths, Michael Morpurgo.

GEFÄHRTEN (“War Horse”)
starts October 20^th, 2013
Stage Theater des Westens, Berlin
Tickets from 19.90 Euros/plus fees
Tickets and information +49-(0)1805 / 44 44* and here…
*0.14 €/min. from German landlines, max price for mobile phones: 0.42 €/min.

Source: CHIO Aachen