Ben Apfelbaum

WAR HORSE MEDIA CALL @ THE LYRIC THEATRE

The National Theatre Of Great Britain is currently staging its award winning production of WAR HORSE at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre, direct from a sell out season in London. In a remarkable achievement it is a six time winner at Broadway’s Tony awards.

It is surprising that the novel ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo sold very poorly in UK bookstores. However, the success of the stage and cinema productions catapulted the book’s popularity.

WAR HORSE features a 34 strong cast and more than 20 puppets. It is the most successful play in the National Theatre’s history, has won more than 25 international awards and has to date been seen by over 8,000,000 people in 98 cities across 12 countries.

It tells a story of a young boy called Albert and his horse Joey with the horse being ‘conscripted’ to serve in the First World War with all its horror and cruelty

Directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris the show features innovative puppetry work by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, which brings breathing, galloping horses to life on stage.

WAR HORSE is playing Sydney’s  Lyric Theatre until the 15th March and then goes across to Perth from the 24th March 2020.

All pics by Ben Apfelbaum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.