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Equus (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a
disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking
exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of
the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane'
life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a deranged boy,
Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced
to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of
uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but
in doing so will open up his own wounds. Dysart struggles in secret
to define sanity, to justify his marriage, to account for his
career, and finds himself questioning the 'normality' of his way of
life. Ultimately, he must ask himself: is it patient or
psychiatrist whose life is being laid bare? The most shocking play
of its day, Equus uses an act of violence to explore faith,
insanity and how the materialism of modern life can destroy
humanity's capacity for pain and passion. Peter Shaffer (b. 1926),
born in Liverpool, is an English playwright. Among his plays are
The Salt Land (1954), Equus (1973) which won Shaffer the 1975 Tony
Award for Best Play, as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle
Award and Amadeus (1979) which won the Evening Standard Drama Award
and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production, as well as
being adapted into a 1984 film starring F. Murray Abraham and Simon
Callow. If you enjoyed Equus, you might like Tennessee Williams's A
Streetcar Named Desire, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Sensationally good' Guardian 'A very important play' The New York
Times
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