Equus – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Dr. Dysart, a quiet, bookish therapist, has a new patient – Alan Strang, a disturbed boy who enters his office singing commercial jingles and shooting daggers with his eyes. Dysart routinely treats troubled youths, but none quite like Alan. For the other night, Alan stripped naked and blinded five horses with a metal spike.
Dysart’s journey into the horrors of this young man’s mind is, of course, Equus, Peter Shaffer’s Tony-award winning play that last saw a New York stage with Daniel Radcliffe as Alan a few years ago. A story of haunting intensity, Equus is a tough show to sit through (any show with five half-naked guys wearing horse masks should be) but when done right, its agony and ecstasy can make your heart burst in its cage.
The Gallery Players’ production in Brooklyn is not always a harrowing experience – thanks to some wooden acting and, at three hours, some pacing problems – but it carries off the show generally well. Some excellent set and lighting design and a few great key performances (Dean Thomas makes a particularly frightening Alan) do sometimes leave you breathless as you’re thrown into Shaffer’s brutal meditations on obsession and worship.
You don’t get to see Harry Potter in his birthday suit this time, but if you want to catch Equus on stage, this one’s a solid production.
Note: Equus features extensive nudity, although this production handles it tastefully.
LOCATION
The Gallery Players Theater
199 14th Street
Brooklyn
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RUNNING TIME
3 hours, 1 intermission
TICKETS
$18.00 (click here for tickets)
DATES
Performances through December 22, 2013
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Mark Gallagher
Featuring Alfred Gingold, Dean Thomas, Lindsay Timmington, Victoria Bundonis, Greg Horton, Rosalind Ashford, Ryan Pater, J.B. Alexander and Adelind Horan