Inside the Horse with Puppetry Assistant Jimmy Grimes

Go behind the scenes at the international blockbuster War Horse.

11am, Saturday 29 June and Saturday 17 August

War Horse puppets and puppeteers

Inside the Horse with Puppetry Assistant Jimmy Grimes

Find out how this spectacular and ingenious show was developed - from original concept, through workshops, to first performances, and then to productions around the world.

Puppetry Assistant Jimmy Grimes shows us how the horses work, and gives us a look inside professional puppeteering for a hit show.

 

Photo by Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

 

  • War Horse
  • One Man, Two Guvnors Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Children of the Sun laboratory scene
  • Othello title poster image
  • strange interlude poster with title
  • The Amen Corner - Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Mission Drift - cast image
  • The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable. Punchdrunk
  • The Grandfathers - recruits doing press-ups
  • The Hush
  • Romeo and Juliet - sun shining through a heart shaped by hands
  • Liola poster with title
  • Home - doormat with trainers
  • Edward II - a king as a candle, upturned and melting
  • Pope Joan
  • Prince of Denmark - Young Ophelia and cast outside old warehouse
  • Tory Boyz - three young men in blazers
  • Romeo and Juliet - Priest and lovers on street corner
  • The Light Princess - a floating princess
  • Romeo and Juliet and Prince of Denmark composite image