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...consummate technician. He delved into the history of horses as sexual and religious symbols and read extensively in animal and child psychology. Then he worked out the boy's motivations to his own satisfaction. In the play they are revealed in long, troubled dialogues between the boy (Peter Firth), who actually worships horses, and a psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins...
...playgoers dearly cherish a theatrical hypo, and Broadway desperately needed an Equus. Almost as desperately as did Richard III. Why has this boy done this horrendous thing? The structure of the play is like that of a trial in which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels...
...superb cast, two performers are in the megaton range. Peter Firth makes Alan a fallen angel of anguish, and Anthony Hopkins' psychiatrist is a tour de force that should make any other Tony contender blanch...
...accompanied by a curly-haired fiddler with a lightening bow playing and singing traditional music in Forbes Plaza, you have heard half of the group Water. If the other half is half as good, their concert of bluegrass, spiritual music, and ballads with Linda Neustadt, Rob Joel, and Al Firth this weekend should be a stomper. Saturday, February 23, at St. Paul's School, 8 p.m., $2. Party for everyone afterwards...
SCOTLAND: The village of Rockcliffe in Kirkcudbrightshire (pronounced Cur-coo-bree-sher) in southwest Scotland lies at the end of the Moors Road and overlooks the silvery waters of the Solway Firth. Just outside the village on a high, rocky peak, a group of young archaeological students, under the direction of Lloyd R. Laing of the University of Liverpool, spent five weeks trying to find the palace of King Urien of Rheged, as part of their course for a degree in ancient and medieval history and archaeology. The site, which is a citadel with ramparts, dates back to the early...