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This is messed up. This is SERIOUSLY messed up... and I loved it for it.
Saw the play in London. So good. Just read it to catch some of the things I missed. Interesting concept, but how could it be bad when it stared not one but TWO Harry Potter alumn?
Saw the play in London just before I started graduate school.
Though it's about Freudian psychiatrists in the 1970s, and I'm a CBT/ACT psychologist in the 21st century, I really took to heart what was said about making sure you don't become a "priest of normality." Being a therapist isn't about making people conform. It's about improving their quality of life.
Though it's about Freudian psychiatrists in the 1970s, and I'm a CBT/ACT psychologist in the 21st century, I really took to heart what was said about making sure you don't become a "priest of normality." Being a therapist isn't about making people conform. It's about improving their quality of life.
This was so amazingly good. The symbolism was just too good, and well I'm not even sure what to say right now. I might update this after I collect my thoughts some more.
Alan Strang is a terribly deranged boy who blinds six horses one night. He is sent to Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, we learn more of Alan's background and what led to this terrible crime. Sex, love, and divinity all play central roles in this play as they all begin to cross-over each other. Alan is incredibly passionate about horses, tortured by a childhood torn in two by confusion between Jesus and Equus. He ends up living for Equus, the one being that is man and horse. Dysant begins to understand this transformation, delivering Alan from "madness" but forcing him into acceptable normalcy as well, creating a ghost out of him by taking away his one true passion and God. To feel is to live, and by delivering pain, he is robbing Alan of his life: "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by doctors. It cannot be created." The tragedy is in the psychiatrist's ability to see all this and realize he will never come close to what Alan had.
This has been my favorite play since I was around 13. That was nearly 2 decades before Harry Potter was in it and everyone knew of it as the “Harry Potter gets naked and has sex with a horse” play. No one has sex with a horse.
* I did see the Daniel Radcliffe production in London and it was incredible. But I already liked the play. And while he’s a good actor, it made watching the later HP movies awkward for me.
* I did see the Daniel Radcliffe production in London and it was incredible. But I already liked the play. And while he’s a good actor, it made watching the later HP movies awkward for me.
So eerie! 3 books left till I complete my challenge! Let’s go !!!!
Shaffer's great play of psychological suspense.
A teenage boy, caught between a religious mother and an atheist father, suffers from a unique delusion that causes him to commit a shocking act. The task of discovering why falls to a middle aged psychiatrist who is dealing with his own midlife issues.
The answer to the boy's mystery slowly unfolds during probing psychoanalysis and reenactment of key events. Actors portray six horses, who act as a (very) Greek chorus and as objects of the boy's delusion.
The play asks us to consider: what is "normal"? Is "normal" just what's left in plodding, numbed adults after their youthful sense of myth and wonder is removed? Is "normal" even desirable?
A teenage boy, caught between a religious mother and an atheist father, suffers from a unique delusion that causes him to commit a shocking act. The task of discovering why falls to a middle aged psychiatrist who is dealing with his own midlife issues.
The answer to the boy's mystery slowly unfolds during probing psychoanalysis and reenactment of key events. Actors portray six horses, who act as a (very) Greek chorus and as objects of the boy's delusion.
The play asks us to consider: what is "normal"? Is "normal" just what's left in plodding, numbed adults after their youthful sense of myth and wonder is removed? Is "normal" even desirable?