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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...
...Gal/Liat Dror and Amiel Malale Dance-part of the Israeli/Jewish-American Dance Festival. "Equus Asinus" explores the historical role of this beast of burden in Israeli society and presents it as a metaphor for the relationships and tensions between Jewish and Arab communities. At the Emerson Majestic Theatre at 219 Tremont St. in Boston. Call 492-7578. Thursday and Friday...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...