It's a play that uses life-size puppets to tell the story of a young British boy and his love for a horse. I saw it in London in 2009. And wrote this blog post when I first saw it.
They create living and breathing horses on stage... except they are puppets and the puppeteers aren't even trying to hide, they are completely visible...
What's odd, though, is after a few minutes you no longer see the puppeteers and only the horses. which of course is the whole point and probably the definition of a good puppet and puppeteer--you forget they aren't real horses in actual life...
Come to think of it that's a what a good story does--make you forget. Forget that it's just words on a page--forget that it's not happening in real life...because you've entered this magical world...
more about the author here
NYT article: Making Horses Gallop and Audiences Cry
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