Behind the 'Absolute Madness' of War Horse's Amazing Life-Size Puppets
When director Marianne Elliott was pitched the idea creating a theater piece based on a children’s book about cavalry horses in World War I, she responded, “It sounds like absolute madness. Yes, I’d love to do it.” Along with co-director Tom Morris and the artists of South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, Elliott guided War Horse to a widely hailed London debut, and the creators are n…