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The National Theatre's hit show, a moving adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's World War I epic War Horse, comes to the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre for a six week run this autumm. When his beloved horse Joey is shipped off to the front lines, Albert, still too young to enlist, embarks on a mission to bring him home. The staging is hugely ambitious, using life-size puppets for the horses, but it's mostly very effective and a scene where a tank looms over the terrified beasts is incredibly intense. Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris' production is a genuine classic, packed with terrifying cavalry charges, gruff humour and moments of rich emotion that are more than capable of reducing entire first-year classes (and their teachers) to tears. Suitable for children aged 10 and over (as long as you're prepared for them to be completely grief-stricken).