So I saw this photoshoot from the November issue of Vogue a couple weeks ago, when I bought it to read on the plane to London to go see family, and although I ended up chucking the Vogue away, (which I did feel a little criminal about) I ripped out this photoshoot. The pictures are beautiful, but also really lovely to see because the man in question is Jeremy Irvine from the play War Horse, which I had the fortune to see before I left London, but which is now on stage at the Lincoln Center in New York. Its coming to The Ahmanson in LA in June 2012, apparently, which I hugely excited about.
The play follows a boy, Albert, and his horse, Joey, who is sold into the British Cavalry in WWI. The play is amazing largely due to the life size puppets that make up the horses, who you genuinely feel for.
The puppets are made by a South African company, The Handspring Puppet Company and made of really light-weight material, bent and lashed cane, to make them easier and more comfortable to wear. The skin is made of nylon mesh with the mane and ears made of leather. They’re controlled from underneath by 2 puppeteers, with the actors handling the head,neck and ears, as they walk or ride the horse.
There’s a fantastic interview w the creators here:
And the link to the broadway site is here:
For the complete Vogue photoshoot see here:
