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Film ‘I Wish for You’ written by Michael is released!

Sunday, 14th February 2016 This February, thousands of people across the UK are turning hearts green to #showthelove for the people, places and life we want to protect for generations to come. The changes needed to protect our world have begun. We can have 100% clean energy within a… Read More

Final performance of War Horse at the New London

War Horse sees its final performance at the New London Theatre on 12 March 2016, 2:30pm. At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the Cavalry and shipped to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an… Read More

War Horse: UK tour September 2017 to October 2018

The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse, begins a major tour of the UK on 15 September 2017 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, where it will run until 14 October 2017. War Horse will then tour to the Bristol Hippodrome (18 October – 11 November 2017), the Empire… Read More

War Horse team unite for farewell

Goodbye Joey! (For now…) It has been one of the most phenomenal West End successes of all time. Now, Michael and the rest of the award-winning team behind War Horse, the National Theatre’s most successful show ever, will reunite for a one-off event to mark the last performance of… Read More

War Horse returns to Hippodrome, autumn 2017

The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse will return to the Hippodrome next autumn. Directed by Bristol Old Vic’s artistic director Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s remarkable story of courage, loyalty and friendship between a young boy and his horse, set against the backdrop of the First World War, is the most… Read More

UK tour of War Horse to include Empire Theatre Liverpool

The internationally acclaimed National Theatre production will be at the Empire Theatre in November and December 2017. The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse will play at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool next year as part of a national tour. Tickets go on sale for the tour on February 8th,… Read More

Private Peaceful to premiere on BBC One

Private Peaceful, an adaptation of Michael’s beloved First World War novel, will air on Sunday 24th January at 11.30pm. The film will follow a screening of War Horse, another film based on Morpurgo’s work, the same weekend. Morpurgo has urged parents and young people to stay up and watch the adaptation,… Read More