what is Equus?

Question

I heard that its kind of program but I dont exactly know what it is. and I heard that daniel radcliffe was naked in this too. Would u pease explain for me?

Answer 1

http://www.equustheplay.com/home/index.php
More info than I care to transcribe here.
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Answer 2

Yes. Equus is a famous play. I was in London in March and saw the play with Daniel Radcliffe -- it's a very difficult part because the main character is very troubled and it's hard to play a psychotic character without over playing it, I think. The section he played in the nude is written into the play, and is important to the plot -- it's not like he got naked for fun. Depending on how you interpret the play, it can have major sexual overtones, so the nude scene is appropriate, rather than done for shock value.

Radcliffe was pretty good in it. He's still working on his acting, and trying not be Harry Potter all the time. The actor who played Uncle Dursley, Richard Griffiths, played the therapist. It was interesting to see the two of them together, and I thought it might have helped Daniel feel more confident about his role to have a friend on stage with him.

(Side note, Alan Rickman who plays Snape was in the audience that night -- sat right across the aisle from us! We called it "The Harry Potter Trifecta"!)

Answer 3

Yes, it is a play about a young man obsessed with horses and it is about a psychiatrist who tries to figure out why the boy blinded some horses with a spike. The boy has accepted the horse as his God, and when he has a sexual encounter with a young lady in front of the horses, he twistedly beleives that he must prevent them from witnessing his sin. There is one brief nude scene in the play, when we produced it at a college, the actor just stripped to his shorts. It is a fascinating play, as Shaffer once again examines the nature of the relationship of man to his God, as he does in nearly all of his plays. Here is a great Doctoral Disseratation for someone. I find it simply fascinating.

Answer 4

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological sexual fascination with horses.[1]

Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a teenage boy who blinded six horses. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play is essentially a detective story, with the psychiatrist trying to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.

Answer 5

It is a play where a boy is obsessed with horses, kind of a love story. and Yes Daniel Radcliffe is in it and he is naked.

Answer 6

Eqqus is a play, in which Daniel Radcliffe played a twisted teenager who loved horses. He played naked and I hated that. Honestly, he went low in my eyes lol.