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Equus; a play

Alan Strang, a 17-year-old stable boy, has hideouly blinded six horses in his charge. No one knows why. The outraged community wants his life, but the presiding judge commits the boy to a hospital to be treated by Dr. Martin Dysart, a child psychiatrist. Under hypnosis and drug treatment, Alan's shell begins to crack, revealing a young man torn between his mother's ultra-religious piety and his father's sardonic athleticism.

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  • "Alan Strang, a 17-year-old stable boy, has hideouly blinded six horses in his charge. No one knows why. The outraged community wants his life, but the presiding judge commits the boy to a hospital to be treated by Dr. Martin Dysart, a child psychiatrist. Under hypnosis and drug treatment, Alan's shell begins to crack, revealing a young man torn between his mother's ultra-religious piety and his father's sardonic athleticism."@en
  • "Performers include: Nicolas Van Burek, Richard Quesnel, Brian Bedford, Brian Tree, Dixie Seatle; directed by Brian Bedford."@en
  • "Psychiatrist Martin Dysart is handed the most shocking case of his career when Alan Strang is entrusted to his care. Strang has blinded six horses with a metal spike, an eerie and terrifying act. The suspects in the psychological mystery that ensues include Alan's father, a man with a secret life, and the girl who was found hysterical on the night of the crime. The revelations lead doctor and patient to a climactic session in which the truth will be found, but at a price neither dares to contemplate."
  • ""Alan Strang, a seventeen-year-old stable boy, has hideously blinded six horses. No one knows why. The outraged community wants his life, but the presiding judge commits the boy to a hospital to be treated by Dr. Martin Dysart, a child psychiatrist. Under hypnosis and a 'truth drug, ' Dr Dysart breaks through Alan's shell to find a young man torn between his mother's ultra religious piety and his father's sardonic atheism. How the doctor discovers the bizarre reasons behind the blinding (a distorted, symbolic act); how he treats Alan, and how this dramatically transforms his own life makes Equus a superb psychological thriller and a turbulent journey into the inner recesses of a troubled mind."--Jacket flap."@en
  • "Toneelstuk over een gestoorde jongen die de ogen van alle paarden in de stal waar hij werkt heeft uitgestoken, waarna hij onder psychiatrische behandeling komt."
  • "Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence."
  • "Story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses."@en
  • "A psychiatrist's probings into the mind of a young man who has blinded six horses with a spike, leaves him questioning his own purpose and the work he is doing."@en
  • "This drama revolves around the relationship between Alan Strang, a disturbed teenager and Martin Dysart, the psychiatrist who is treating him. Alan has deliberately blinded six horses and at first will only communicate by way of advertising jingles."@en
  • "An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence."@en

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  • "Dramat angielski"
  • "English drama"@en
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  • "Toneelstukken (teksten)"
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  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
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  • "Equus : [Program. Nov. 1974]"
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  • "Equus : [a play]"
  • "Equus : A play"
  • "EQUUS"
  • "Equus : [Paris, Théâtre d'Orsay, 5 novembre 1976]"
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  • "Equus : a play"@en
  • "Equus : a play"
  • "Equus... / [por] Peter Shaffer"@es
  • "Equus ein Stück"
  • "Equus : [théâtre]"
  • "Equus : mise en scène de Didier Long"
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  • "Equus : (par) peter shaffer. Trad. et adaptation de jean-louis roux"
  • "Equus : a play in two acts"
  • "Equus : a play in two acts"@en
  • "Equus : Trad. et adaptation Jean Louis Roux"
  • "Equus : trad. et adapt. jean-louis roux"
  • "Equus a play"
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