Equus (play) - Wikipedia
Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. [1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town in northern England.
Equus (Play) Plot & Characters - StageAgent
Alan, a passionate and obsessive horse lover, has blinded six horses, to the horror and surprise of his family. In his efforts to coax Alan out of his shell and treat him, Dr. Dysart begins to unravel the complex psychological puzzle of Alan’s obsessions.
Equus - Concord Theatricals
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 5m Peter Shaffer In Peter Shaffer’s classic psychological thriller, a psychiatrist struggles to understand the motives of a teenage boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.
Equus | Drama, Psychological Thriller, British | Britannica
Equus, drama in two acts by Peter Shaffer, produced and published in 1973. It depicts a psychiatrist’s fascination with a disturbed teenager’s mythopoeic obsession with horses. The drama unfolds through the eyes of Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist and an amateur mythologist, who narrates the events of.
Equus by Peter Shaffer Plot Summary - LitCharts
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Feb 13, 2021 · Equus : a play. by. Shaffer, Peter, 1926-. Publication date. 1974. Topics. Psychotherapist and patient -- Drama, Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Drama, Horses -- Drama, Teenage boys -- Drama. Publisher. London : French.
Equus (Broadway, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 1974) | Playbill
Original. Plymouth Theatre. 236 W. 45th St., New York, NY. SYNOPSIS: Psychiatrist Martin Dysart attempts to understand why young stableboy Alan Strang has blinded six horses. In his...
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Equus - Encyclopedia.com
May 29, 2018 · Equus depicts the state of mind of Alan Strang, the imaginative, emotionally-troubled stableboy who serves as the play’s protagonist. In relating his themes, Shaffer combines psychological realism with expressionistic theatrical techniques, employing such devices as masks, mime, and dance.