Word: equus
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...retain the play's intellectual breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
...post-Elizabethan years he finally gave up the bottle, did a few good plays and movies, notably Equus, and many bad ones, such as The Klansman and The Wild Geese. "I've done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money," he confessed a few years ago. "I didn't need "it. I've never needed money, not even as a child, though I came from a very poor family. But there have been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor...
...sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts have big heads, thick, short manes, chocolate-brown legs and a fondness for friendly nipping, neighing and other forms of socializing. But unless there are more exchanges to prevent inbreeding, they...
...been brainwashed, programmed like a computer, the distraught father Allan (John McMartin) hires a deprogrammer to restore Shelley to his precult self. The duel of wits, will and passion between the boy and the deprogrammer, Balthazar (Anthony Zerbe), forms the core of this eruptively theatrical play. Echoes of Equus resound-of the boy who blinded horses he took to be gods, of the psychiatrist who cured...
...Pielmeier flunks his metaphysical, he gives his players every chance for a sublime, exhausting workout onstage. Forget Equus; think of The Exorcist. Watch Plummer as she scales the sloping back wall of Eugene Lee's set, as blood gushes from the stigmata in her palms, as she wrenchingly relives her murdered child's birth. The show, not the play, is the thing here. And Plummer- a scarily gifted actress with a waif's face and a voice that intones words as if she had learned them at Berlitz school on Mars- puts on an extraordinary show...