Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes

[Tim]

That is the traditional way the play is presented... Actors as the 6 
horses.  Having just re-read the play (all this talk of Equus made me 
pull out my copy) I can see how the two scenes COULD be played 
without nudity at all... however, it is much more emotional to have 
the actor playing Alan actually get naked for those two scenes.  The 
character is reliving memories during those scenes... he almost can't 
help himself from acting out exactly what happened, for good or ill.  
I'd love to be able to get to London to see this... the emotional arc 
Alan goes through is incredible.  Would love to see how Dan handles 
it.

Tim

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, AnitaKH <anita_hillin at ...> wrote:
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> While I have to admit it's been a while since I've seen the play 
(and even longer since I've read it), I only remember two scenes in 
the play that involved nudity.  The first scene is his ride on the 
horse and the second is his tryst with a girl in the stable.  I won't 
go into specifics for anyone who would like to see the 
play "unspoiled."  
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> The production I saw used actors in costume for the horses, and I 
believe that's in the stage directions.  Before you start thinking 
cheesy horse suit, they built wire headdresses that resembled horses' 
heads, and they wore shoes with wire lifts shaped to resemble horses' 
hooves.  When Alan rode the horse, he was riding piggy-back on the 
back of the actor.   In this production, the horses surrounded the 
playing area of the stage at all times.  Two friends of mine were 
horses, and they said it was actually physically taxing having to 
stand throughout the play, plus moving in a horse-like manner while 
standing on stilts, essentially when they were playing horses.
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> Others may have seen a different treatment of the horses than this 
one, but the effect was very striking and I thought it worked 
brilliantly.  Can you tell I loved the play?
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> akh, a big fan of both Peter and Anthony Schaffer (and I know they 
spell it two different ways).
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