War Horse
Year: 2014
Country: Great Britain
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Tom Morris
Set designer: Rae Smith
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Director of Movement and Horse Choreography: Toby Sedgwick
Composer: Adrian Sutton
Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt
Puppet Design and Fabrication, Puppetry Directors: Basil Jones, Adrian Kohler
Cast: Sion Daniel Young, Alex Avery, Josie Walker, Steve North, William Rycroft
Genre: theatre production
Runtime: 157 min.
Age: 12+
Country: Great Britain
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Tom Morris
Set designer: Rae Smith
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Director of Movement and Horse Choreography: Toby Sedgwick
Composer: Adrian Sutton
Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt
Puppet Design and Fabrication, Puppetry Directors: Basil Jones, Adrian Kohler
Cast: Sion Daniel Young, Alex Avery, Josie Walker, Steve North, William Rycroft
Genre: theatre production
Runtime: 157 min.
Age: 12+
Awards & Festivals:
London Production
2007 Evening Standard Awards
Best Director (Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, nominee)
Best Design (Rae Smith and the Handspring Puppet Company, winner)
2007 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards
Best Designer (Basil Jones, Adrian Kohler, Rae Smith, and the Handspring Puppet Company, winner)
2008 Laurence Olivier Awards
Best New Play (Nick Stafford, nominee)
Best Lighting Design (Paule Constable, nominee)
Best Sound Design (Adrian Sutton and John Tams, nominee)
Best Set Design (Rae Smith, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, winner)
Best Theatre Choreographer (Toby Sedgwick, winner)
Best Director (Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, nominee)
2010 Laurence Olivier Awards
Audience Award for Most Popular Show (nominee)
2012 TheatrePeople.com Awards
Nominated for ‘Favourite Play’ and ‘Favourite Family Show’
2012 Whatsonstage Best West End Show Award
2015 Mousetrap Award for Best Play
Broadway Production
2011 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Production of a Play (winner)
Distinguished Performance (Seth Numrich, nominee)
2011 Tony Awards
Best Play (Nick Stafford, winner)
Best Direction of a Play (Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, winner)
Best Scenic Design of a Play (Rae Smith, winner)
Best Lighting Design of a Play (Paule Constable, winner)
Best Sound Design of a Play (Christopher Shutt, winner)
In addition, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of Handspring Puppet Company won the Special Tony Award for War Horse.
2011 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Play (winner)
2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Broadway Play (winner)
Outstanding Director of a Play (Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, winner)
Outstanding Lighting Design (Paule Constable, winner)
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Seth Numrich, nominee)
In addition, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of Handspring Puppet Company won the Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award, for “Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for War Horse”.
2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards
Best Broadway Choreographer (Toby Sedgwick, nominee)
