Writer Michael Morpurgo is to read excerpts from his novel War Horse at Birmingham Hippodrome in an event called Only Remembered.
The National Theatre production of War Horse is enjoying a sell-out run at the Hippodrome.
On Friday (8 November) at 2PM, Morpurgo will be accompanied on stage by musicians John Tams and Barry Coope who will bring to life songs composed for the production.
Morpurgo said, “'War Horse the book was inspired by a fireside chat in a Devon pub with a veteran of the First World War more than 30 years ago.
“It’s since been a National Theatre play, a symphony concert piece, a radio play and a Spielberg movie.
“But this concert version is the closest of all the adaptations to the original book in which the voice of the storyteller is the voice of Joey, the horse on a Devon farm, sold away to the army to go to the front in 1914.
“It's also the version in which, as the reader of the story on stage, I’m most involved. Every time I read it, with John and Barry's glorious music interwoven with the words, I feel as if I'm telling it for the first time, as if I was there, as the old soldier in the pub was all those years ago.”