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Equus
by Peter Shaffer
If I could give this play 6, 7, 8 stars I would. 5 just feels too few.
Equus is one of those plays that even though I've never seen it or read it seems to have an almost mythic place in my consciousness. I know the story, I know some of its themes and I know Daniel Ratcliffe gets stripped off in the most recent revival.
Its the story of a boy who blinds horses and a psychiatrist who searched for the answer to why. The play deals with issues of religious fervour, psychiatric illness, sanity and insanity as well as parental control and personal responsibility. It shows psychiatry to be red in both tooth and claw.
This is a harsh, hard and bleak play that does not come to a nice, cosy, happy ending but it's a compelling and compulsive read.
Equus is one of those plays that even though I've never seen it or read it seems to have an almost mythic place in my consciousness. I know the story, I know some of its themes and I know Daniel Ratcliffe gets stripped off in the most recent revival.
Its the story of a boy who blinds horses and a psychiatrist who searched for the answer to why. The play deals with issues of religious fervour, psychiatric illness, sanity and insanity as well as parental control and personal responsibility. It shows psychiatry to be red in both tooth and claw.
This is a harsh, hard and bleak play that does not come to a nice, cosy, happy ending but it's a compelling and compulsive read.