If it was all sadness it wouldn't be the worlwide hit that it's fast becoming. Yes, there are sad moments [it's about a war that killed countless lives] but it's uplifting and full of hope for mankind. The First World War is fast fading out of people's conciousness, a book/play such as this keeps it fresh in our minds [Morpugos' books are studied in school]. It make us remember and face the horrors of war, but with a message that mankind is intringically good and decent, and that is what will ultimately prevail. To think that, when we went to see it, we were worried that the play was not going to continue [it had moved theatre once]. I understand that Japan are building a theatre specifically to show it [somehow the puppet horses seem Japanese in a way I can't explain; perhaps I've seen pictures of Japanese war horses in the past?], and it's going to Australia also. Sometimes, as an 'animal' we need to see ourselves as other creatures perceive us? It's not gloom and doom, but the most uplifting thing I have ever seen.