Morpurgo cried when German cast members sang him one of the songs from the show, over the phone, in German
….for the play to go now to Berlin, where it is currently in rehearsals with a German cast, is truly momentous, and timely, too. A hundred years since Germans soldiers marched away to fight in France and Belgium, since British soldiers went across the Channel to confront them, a hundred years after the beginning of arguably the most terrible of all wars, “the war to end all wars”, in which over 10 million soldiers on all sides perished, and 10 million horses too, a British play about the First World War will be performed in Berlin by German actors, a play which is above all about our universal longing for peace and reconciliation. It will be playing in England and Germany at the same time.
extract taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/10321045/War-Horse-the-play-to-end-all-wars.html
