Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. [1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town in northern England.

English playwright Sir Peter Shaffer’s international hit is a dazzling, complex, and thrilling look at passion, sex, religion, and sanity. Equus plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.

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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 5m Peter Shaffer In Peter Shaffer’s classic psychological thriller, a psychiatrist struggles to understand the motives of a teenage boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.

Equus, drama in two acts by Peter Shaffer, produced and published in 1973. It depicts a psychiatrist’s fascination with a disturbed teenager’s mythopoeic obsession with horses.

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SYNOPSIS: Psychiatrist Martin Dysart attempts to understand why young stableboy Alan Strang has blinded six horses. In his exploration of the troubled boy and his dysfunctional parents,...