Equus, review – This revival feels as intimate as trespassing into a teenager’s bedroom - 4/5 Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play returns with real verve at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory ...

In this psychological study of obsession and religion, DR. Martin Dysart has been tasked with looking into the case of a troubled boy who blinds six horses despite his parents insisting that he has a ...

Equus review: A fine revival of a deeply odd but significant play - 4/5 A forceful revival of Peter Shaffer’s strange play at the Menier Chocolate Factory with a standout lead performance ...

LONG BEACH >> The small upstairs Studio Theatre at the Long Beach Playhouse has never seemed bigger. It’s only 70 or so seats, and the stage is no bigger than before, but for Peter Shaffer’s ...

Actors Charley Raintree plays Nugget the Horse and Jacob Pennington is young Alan Strang in “Equus” written by Peter Shaffer. The two figures onstage are locked in an embrace. One is a skinny young ...

Blank Canvas Theatre has announced the cast of EQUUS. DR. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Equus” sets the scene in an instant: Teenager Alan Strang is being held in an English psychiatric hospital after savagely and inexplicably blinding six ...

A psychiatrist knows he has the skills to banish a troubled boy’s delusions, but will he also squelch his capacity for passion and wonder? The question reverberates throughout Peter Shaffer’s ...

As is well-known, Shaffer was provoked into writing the play after hearing about the horrifying case of a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a county town in Suffolk. For his fictional version, ...

"Equus," presented by Theatre Downtown at Fifth Avenue Antiques through March 13. Tickets ($17) available by calling 306-1470 or going to www.theatredowntown.org. Review gets four out of five stars ...