Michael added: “My stories are always inspired by true events, I do not have a vivid imagination, they have to be grounded in reality and I expand from there.”īutterfly Lion is at Venue Cymru from September 23-28.
“And then a few years later, I just got lucky and I met someone who had been in the First World War and had seen these zoo animals getting shot because there was no feed, and this man stopped him shooting this white lion.” “I saw this white horse carved out of the hillside, and I looked at the book again and I thought of a white lion on the hillside, rather than a horse. “I was on the train reading this book and the train stopped in the middle of nowhere. “The first thing I read about white lions was a book which was written by a man who had seen them at Timbavati and I thought it was fascinating. Where did the inspiration for the story of Butterfly Lion come from? “Daniel adapted Farm Boy, he keeps it very simple and he doesn’t over elaborate, so I’ve got a lot of confidence it’ll be a great production.” But you’re handing it over to someone else's creative elements, you just hope it will do the story justice. “They never produce it exactly as I thought it would have done. Is he nervous about changes to his 1996 Smarties prize winner? It’s always a bit difficult because you never know until you sit down and it’s performed what is going to be different.” “I’ll see the play for the first time in about a month. But Daniel is very good at it and I have great confidence in him, otherwise I wouldn’t let him. “The big challenge is who I let adapt it, I have to careful. So, is Michael nervous seeing one of his favourite books go to the stage? Bertie promises to find the lion one day.įighting in France in the First World War, Bertie is reunited with the lion. When living in Africa, Bertie rescued a white lion cub, but was forced to part with it and the lion was sold to a circus. The book, first published in 1996, tells the tale of a young boy who runs away from boarding school and meets an old woman who tells him the story of the butterfly lion.
He said: “Of all the books I’ve written it’s always in the top two or three of children’s favourites and I like what they like.” The prolific children’s author has written over 120 books and he was very glad when one of his favourites, Butterfly Lion, was chosen for a stage adaptation. Since his 1982 novel War Horse exploded onto the stage and subsequently onto the big screen, interest in Michael Morpurgo’s extensive back catalogue has sky-rocketed.
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