It was for a Friday night and my next exam was only the following Wednesday. This results in cheaper tickets so my mom booked for u. Something which the Teatro often does is sells an entire show (usually an unpopular time) to various schools and mine, being ever so slightly cultural, opted to buy one. There was one problem… my final matric examinations started two days before the play which meant that I would have to give up study time to see the production but after a long discussion with the academic side of me the creative side won out and I was going to go. I want to become an engineer and I’ve loved drama my entire life so to see the two combined so seamlessly, effortlessly and with creativity I can’t even imagine was truly breath-taking for me and I made myself a promise that I would see this show. The engineering of it… This is something I don’t know how to explain. I read so little I don’t think I can call myself a reader anymore (I know it is devastating), I can’t remember what a gallery looks like and I think I have been to one play and that was a school thing anyway but when I heard that War Horse was coming to Jo’burg, the dramatic part of me noticed but it was when the puppet company toured to some of the schools in the area with Joey as their star attraction I knew that I had to go. This year has been chaos and in that chaos I have lost time to do things I love.

War horse play rights