Equus at Stratford East and tour

[rockinrobin]

Loved it. My kind of theatre. Very intense, very physical, marvellously played.
I did actually find Zubin Varla's performance very moving - his Dysart is very restrained, blocked. He is the one who clearly needs to be healed - but who is going to heal the doctor?...

[greenswan]

So caught this last night. I had successfully suppressed the memory of the horrible seating - elbow in my ribs on one side and a full length of curls constantly brushing over my arm on the other side. Not that I can blame my neighbours, the seats were clearly too narrow. On the plus side loads of well-behaved school groups.

The acting and especially the physical representation of the horses was good, the play I couldn’t get on with at all. Mainly terribly boring and maybe a bit dated. Perhaps the subtext was more subversive at the time but it was fully out in the open here. Firmly off my list for the future.