Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes
Tim
tmarends at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 3 19:31:52 UTC 2006
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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