Equus (play)

Equus (Latin for 'horse' ) is a play by Peter Shaffer from 1973. The German -language transfer of Wolfgang Mandt was published in 1974.

Action

The psychiatrist Martin Dysart is recognized to the case of 17 -year-old introverted stable boy Alan Strang, who has taken in the barn of his employer six horses with a hoof pick the eyesight. Only slowly can Dysart, even tired and burned out, penetrate to the boy, a product of an unemotional, about religious parents house, received an almost mystical relationship with the cared for horses from him, a kind of worship of the gods of nature.