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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play

A group of actors, including two men and two women, interact with a life sized puppet of the front of a white horse
The play has been built up from a range of tales, collected and blended over the course of five years. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

The stories about life in Cornwall have flowed in: the hairdresser who gives everyone the same style because it copes best with the elements; the teacher who took a snowball in a cool box to the Isles of Scilly: the cat who follows the same routine as a country singing legend.

Over the last five years, scores of such tales have been painstakingly collected and blended into a new play called White Horse that reimagines a beloved book by one of the great chroniclers of south-west England, Michael Morpurgo.

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