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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... read more
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- Alan Strang: Confused teenager, psychotic
- Martin Dysart: The psychiatrist that struggles with religion and helps Alan.
- Frank: Alan's father.
- Dora: Alan's mother.
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“Sex is not just a biological matter, but spiritual as well”
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“Without worship you shrink, it’s as brutal as that…I shrank my own life. No one can do it for you. I settled for being pallid and provincial, out of my eternal timidity.”
Martin Dysart
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Without worship you shrink, it’s as brutal as that . . . I shrank my own life.
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The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes—all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
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Look . . . to go through life and call it yours—your life—you first have to get your own pain. Pain that’s unique to you. You can’t just dip into the common bin and say ‘That’s enough!’ . . . He’s done that. All right, he’s sick. He’s full of misery and fear. He was dangerous, and could be again, though I doubt it. But that boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have felt in any second of my life. And let me tell you something: I envy it.
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. Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
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My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband—a caring citizen—a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!
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DYSART: You can tell me, Alan. Name him. ALAN: Equus. DYSART: Thank you. Does he live in all horses or just some? ALAN: All.
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Is it possible, at certain moments we cannot imagine, a horse can add its sufferings together—the non-stop jerks and jabs that are its daily life—and turn them into grief? What use is grief to a horse?
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The Lord thy God is a Jealous God. He sees you. He sees you forever and ever, Alan. He sees you! . . . He sees you!
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I need—more desperately than my children need me—a way of seeing in the dark. What way is this? . . . What dark is this? . . . I cannot call it ordained of God: I can’t get that far. I will however pay it so much homage. There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.
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All the cast of Equus sits on stage the entire evening. They get up to perform their scenes, and return when they are done to their places around the set. They are witnesses, assistants—and especially a Chorus.
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With one particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces
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- Peter Shaffer (Author)
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Page Count: 109
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- Dewey: 822.914
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