Word: fishburn
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...actress and cultural savvy as a socialite affect everyone around her, especially her son, the ambitious playwright Konstantin Treplev (Liam R. Martin ’06). Other involving characters include the ailing Sorin (Sean P. Bala ’09), the conflicted, self-important writer Trigorin (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and the aspiring actress Nina (Sophie C. Kargman...
Equus is a psychological drama focusing on a single, horrific crime: a 17-year-old boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike. His psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, must find out why and cure him. It gradually comes out that Alan (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) has combined the influences of his parents, his hatred of a deadening consumer society, and his love of horses into a unique and personal religion in which he finds the passion that Dysart (Dan A. Cozzens ’03) lacks...
...Cozzens makes the most of these moments, endowing Dysart with a slightly hostile glare and energetic hands, imbuing his rambling with all the energy of a repressed fancier of a dead society, with a frigid wife and a job whose benefit he begins to doubt. As Alan, Fishburn is a worthy foil, with a mournful stare and an affect that switches like a light between cold disengagement and eager emotion. In their scenes together, Dysart’s fight to overpower Alan’s hostility to his questioning with a somewhat dubious methodology of hypnosis, “truth...
...staging (by Ben J. Toff ’05) and lighting (by Josh Randall) are complex and perfect. A bright light facing the front of the stage serves as both religious illumination and a movie screen. When they are not on stage, the actors other than Cozzens and Fishburn sit in stalls, each illuminated by a bare light bulb and containing a gleaming wire and clear plastic mask of a horse’s head (created with obvious care by Andrea E. Flores ’05, Shaun Rolly, and Nancy Lewis). As the action calls for it, they strap...