Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford in association with Handspring Puppet Company. Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 14 January – 8 February 2020
A story that begins with the rivalry between two farmers. One wins an auction and buys a foal he can ill afford – and the foal is a ‘hunter’, not a farm horse that could pull a wagon or a plough. Nevertheless, the farmer’s son Albert (Scott Miller), only sixteen, calls the horse ‘Joey’ and the two are soul mates, bonded forever. Suddenly it’s 1914 and there’s an urgent need for horses, thousands of them – and Joey is sold and gone. And when Joey is gone, our hearts sink. Albert is bereft, heartbroken, of cou