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    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. 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. He set out to construct a fictional accou… See more

    Plot summary

    Martin Dysart is a psychiatrist working in a psychiatric hospital. He begins with a monologue in which he outlines the case of 17-year-old Alan Strang, who has blinded six horses. He divulges his feeling that his occupation … See more

    Original Broadway production

    The play opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on 24 October 1974, ending on 11 September 1976. It then opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on 5 October 1976, ending on 2 October 1977, for a total o… See more

    Film adaptation

    Shaffer adapted the play for a 1977 film starring Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Eileen Atkins, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, and Jenny Agutter, directed by Sidney Lumet. Unlike stage productions, where the horses are portray… See more

    Is Equus a movie?
    Some plays lend themselves to cinematic interpretation. A play whose cast of characters includes men dressed as horses ain't one of them. And yet in 1977, Equus became a Hollywood movie, starring the master of backstreet acting himself, Richard Burton.
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