Tear-jerker: War Horse at the National Theatre
Personally, I'm a real blubber. It doesn't take much. Having had a particularly prolonged attack of blubbing the other night while at War Horse at the National Theatre, I wanted to try to get the bottom of what sets me off, in this piece for G2. Like I say in the article, there are some things that get me every time - the end of the first act of Tristan; ditto of Giselle; Andromache and Hector in Iliad Book Six. (I've also cried at Heroes and Spooks recently, and there's lots of Buffy The Vampire Slayer that gets me going.)
What moves you to tears in the theatre? Perhaps you cry in films, but not in the theatre? Do you cry when you read books, or go to the opera, or see certain paintings? What is this weeping business all about?
