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War Horse - The stage Performance  based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, has come to Cape Town , South Africa, as most things eventually do. 

We are not a family will excess money and so when we choose one of these fantastic opportunities we do so with care. 

Again, as with the da Vinci exhibition, we were not disappointed.

Yesterday afternoon we enjoyed the matinee performance of War Horse at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town.

One of the reasons we were all keen to see War Horse on stage was because of the wonderful puppets. We had watched the TED talk about the making of these incredible creature puppets and of course the makers are two South Africans , and so we were supper excited and proud!

Check out the Ted Talk!

http://www.ted.com/talks/handpring_puppet_co_the_genius_puppetry_behind_war_horse?language=en

We all went and so it was that we had the very back seats way up in the gods. But it did not matter at all. In fact, it meant that, having no-one sitting behind us, we were able to shift and move to see, when and where necessary. 

I need not have been even a little concerned that even our youngest , ADHD child might be bored.  We all sat riveted. It was a most stunning performance by all the cast and of course the puppeteers and the " horses" were just wonderful. Their performance is realistic and one soon totally forgetts that they are puppets. I grew up with horses and there is everything horse and real about them. They are gloriously wonderful.

We loved every minute of this sad and broken story and it deserved the spontaneous standing ovation without a doubt.

Thanks be to God for cultural fun as our friend Jeremy prayed latter that evening. Yes thanks be to God!!