Word: strangeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Imagine being obsessed with horses to the extent that Alan Strang is. To the extent that they control your physical, mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual life...
...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...
...situation at home does not improve either. The martial problems that the Strangs attempt to hide begin to surface when each approaches the psychiatrist with details of Alan's life, as well as their own. "Ask him about the girl he was with that night," Frank Strang (Blake Lawit) tells Martin...
...words are spoken by Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist in a rural English hospital, and they are directed to Alan Strang, his 17-year-old patient who, at the moment, is under hypnosis. Alan has been institutionalized after blinding six horses one night in the stable where he works on weekends. Equus is the imaginary horse god, the product of Alan's tangled mind and troubled childhood and it is Dysart's task to exorcise it from him. The question on which Peter Shaffer's play turns is, simply, does Dysart want...
...Nittany Lions took a 17-0 first quarter lead on touchdown runs of six yards by quarterback Doug Strang and 61 yards by Jon Williams and a 47-yard field goal by Nick Gancitano...