Theater

February, 1975

Peter Shaffer's Equus is an operation on the mind and an investigation into the roots of sexual passion. A stable boy (Peter Firth), a lover of horses, has mysteriously blinded six of them, and a child psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) has been called in to solve the mystery and to administer the "cure." The author asks, What is the purpose of psychiatry? To adjust the seriously disturbed to normality? And what is disturbed and what is normality? The psychiatrist is repelled by the boy's...