Word: equus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Equus. At the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., through April. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
...worse than death is probably the weakest proposition in the play. However, the two principals are admirable. Wary, arrogant, streetwise, tormented, Rollins' Jackson makes demands on every playgoer's conscience, and David Clennon's firm, troubled, incisively probing psychiatrist merits a call from the producers of Equus whenever Richard Burton leaves that strikingly similar role...
...Equus. At the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., through April. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
While Actor Richard Burton continues his sellout run in the Broadway play Equus, Daughter Kate Burton, 18, has staged her own theatrical debut. Kate, a Brown University freshman whose mother is Richard's first wife, Sybil Christopher, speaks six lines in her college's production of Look Homeward, Angel."I don't know if I'll continue acting," she says. "I'm just doing it for fun right now." Papa Burton, 50, seems less tentative about his daughter's future. "She's not interested in going into the theater," he asserts...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the only worthwhile homegrown native son's work to be produced in Boston in this Bicentennial season of foreign imports (fireworks by Equus of England and South Africa's Sizwe Banzi is Dead). It survived a stormy infancy, including a Pulitzer abortion at birth in 1963 (nominated, then rejected for being offensive), early charges of obscenity and immorality, vicious rumors (Was the play really written for four homosexuals?) and callous adolescent pranks (an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie version with more fangs than heart, 1966) to emerge as a classic of the American theater. The current...