Introduction
Equus is a shocking play, in the proper sense of the word. It sets out to shock. When Martin Dysart asks Hesther Salomon what Alan Strang has done to need psychiatric treatment and makes a bad joke about dosing ¨some little girl’s Pepsi with Spanish Fly¨, Hesther’s reply. ¨He blinded six horses with a metal spike´ is so unexpected and so disgusting that even audiences hardened to the conventional horrors of war stories and thrillers are likely to feel some sort of jolt. This shock is precisely calculated and the play continues to produce shocks and surprises all the way thought.
Growing and identity
The play begins with the introduction of the young boy who blinded these horses he was familiar with .
The plot's painful journey into the tortured mind of Alan Strang and the equally conflict-filled mind of child psychiatrist Martin Dysart creates an evening of introspection.Alan grows up with a secret from his overly conservative religious mom and his atheistic dad, that he is in love with a horse.
He had been fascinated by horses since he rode a white horse with a marvelous horseman. After that, horses seemed omniscient and almighty beings to him. Alan's love for horses developed into a religious fervor as if they were all-powerful gods. He felt love and trust, fascination and ecstasy only with horses, so he thinks that to betray a horse is the most fearful sin in the world.
He meets a girl named Jill by chance, and gets to work at a stable on her recommendation, and they become sweethearts.
Buy when he goes to an adult movie with her, he meets his father, a symbol of absolute authority. He is shocked. Jill tempts him into a stable with her, and he is terrified after he has sex with her, because he thinks that horses were glaring at him with their bloodshot eyes.
Horses are no longer god-like beings, but beings which restrain his instincts. He stabs out the eyes of all the horses in the stable, to express his rebellion against god, father, mother and all authorities who see and judge everything he does.
Why does Alan have a problem forging his identity?
After this traumatic event, Alan seems not to recognize his own identity. He suffers from his oppressive parents and turns all his madness into his obssesion for horses. The consequence of this is the mental disorder which takes him into de psychiatric hospital.
As Alan has always benn dependant form his parents, he never got the chance to mature. So when he has sex with Jill, this is very new to him. In consequence he shocks. And due to his confusión he thinks the horses would get angry with him. The boy could not find with himself nor his identity.
Equus is a shocking play, in the proper sense of the word. It sets out to shock. When Martin Dysart asks Hesther Salomon what Alan Strang has done to need psychiatric treatment and makes a bad joke about dosing ¨some little girl’s Pepsi with Spanish Fly¨, Hesther’s reply. ¨He blinded six horses with a metal spike´ is so unexpected and so disgusting that even audiences hardened to the conventional horrors of war stories and thrillers are likely to feel some sort of jolt. This shock is precisely calculated and the play continues to produce shocks and surprises all the way thought.
Growing and identity
The play begins with the introduction of the young boy who blinded these horses he was familiar with .
The plot's painful journey into the tortured mind of Alan Strang and the equally conflict-filled mind of child psychiatrist Martin Dysart creates an evening of introspection.Alan grows up with a secret from his overly conservative religious mom and his atheistic dad, that he is in love with a horse.
He had been fascinated by horses since he rode a white horse with a marvelous horseman. After that, horses seemed omniscient and almighty beings to him. Alan's love for horses developed into a religious fervor as if they were all-powerful gods. He felt love and trust, fascination and ecstasy only with horses, so he thinks that to betray a horse is the most fearful sin in the world.
He meets a girl named Jill by chance, and gets to work at a stable on her recommendation, and they become sweethearts.
Buy when he goes to an adult movie with her, he meets his father, a symbol of absolute authority. He is shocked. Jill tempts him into a stable with her, and he is terrified after he has sex with her, because he thinks that horses were glaring at him with their bloodshot eyes.
Horses are no longer god-like beings, but beings which restrain his instincts. He stabs out the eyes of all the horses in the stable, to express his rebellion against god, father, mother and all authorities who see and judge everything he does.
Why does Alan have a problem forging his identity?
After this traumatic event, Alan seems not to recognize his own identity. He suffers from his oppressive parents and turns all his madness into his obssesion for horses. The consequence of this is the mental disorder which takes him into de psychiatric hospital.
As Alan has always benn dependant form his parents, he never got the chance to mature. So when he has sex with Jill, this is very new to him. In consequence he shocks. And due to his confusión he thinks the horses would get angry with him. The boy could not find with himself nor his identity.
Juan Manuel Arce & Joaquin Henault
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