Word: equus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Equus, which played at the Loeb Experimental Theater last weekend, Alan Strang (Benjamin Hewitt) faces these disturbing circumstances. Still, family problems and a fetish are not compelling enough reason to blind five horses. Martin Dysart (Donald Britton), a professional psychiatrist, begins with the hope to cure...
Alan is a puzzle. He takes Dysart and the audience into the bizarre world that he shares with Equus, who Alan believes is a deity. In one scene, Alan invokes Equus to ride with him. This nightly ritual is one of the truly magnificent scenes of the play. The revolving stage, drawn by the horses (played with great poise by Kareem Montague, Cecilia Sperling, Meredith Wolf, Keith Barsky and Catherine Zuromskis) enhance Alan's excitement and passion...
...abandon with which director George Reyes depicts the ride captures Alan's true spirit beautifully--wild, free, untamed. "Make us one person," he pleads with Equus...
...play focuses on Alan's spiritual and sexual obsession with Equus. While it leaves Alan confused and alienated, it also allows him to "gallop"--a visual representation of his freedom and complete independence. Martin grows to envy Alan's free spirit because his own life is structured, safe, boring and devoid of any romantic or sexual stimulus. He debates with himself whether he ought to take away the "gallop" from Alan and give him a life...
...girl that Frank refers to is Jill Mason (Elizabeth Price), who attempts to seduce him in the stable where they both work. But, instead of her face, he sees Equus', instead of her skin he feels Equus'. All around the pitch black barn, he can see only Equus, whose anger at Alan's infidelity torments the already distraught boy. "Equus sees, God sees'" he screams, before in a fit of fury, he blinds all five horses with a metal spike. "No more Equus, no more," he screams, above the terrified, blinded horses. This is the revelation that Alan finally makes...