EQUUS

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe's coming of age on the London stage has made Equus one of this year's must-see shows. Click the link on the right for tickets to see the star in this new West End production of Peter Shaffer's classic drama. Radcliffe plays Alan Strang, a seemingly normal, obedient 17 year old with a passion for horses. Then one night he blinds six of the beasts with a hoof pick. What drove him to it? His life seems routine, his family loving, his pursuits harmless. And yet he has been placed under psychiatric surveillance—an unresponsive patient who is woken each night by terrible nightmares. Only psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Griffiths) seems able to grasp the answer to this psychological puzzle.

Equus originally opened at the National Theatre in 1973, before transferring to the West End and Broadway for record-breaking runs. It won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play and was made into a film starring Richard Burton in 1977.