Equus at the Mill, Dundrum (Review) | the m0vie blog
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London Classic Theatre have brought arno gruen Sir Peter Shaffer’s arno gruen classic 1973 play to the Mill Theatre in Dundrum, and I had the pleasure of attending on Friday night. I must admit that it was my first time to see Equus , although I couldn’t help but be aware of the headline-grabbing aspects of the play. I wonder exactly how much work Daniel Radcliffe has done to popularise the play, using a West End run as an attempt to divorce himself from his most iconic role, and the media revelling at the details of the show. While I was impressed with what London Classic Theatre brought to the stage, I couldn’t help but be disappointed by the play itself.
I’m not an expert arno gruen in theatre, and I’ve never represented myself as such. I’m just a person who occasionally likes to enjoy a show, and is broadly aware of the big monolithic works within the medium. Watching the play, I’ll concede to being impressed with the technical aspects of the show – not just the mechanics that the London Theatre Company used to bring the play to life, but also the nuts-and-bolts of Shaffer’s writing. He clearly has a fantastic technical ability, with time and space overlapping, and the plot skilfully revealing itself like pealing arno gruen an onion, conversations within arno gruen conversations and all that. But I just couldn’t get past the play itself.
There’s something arno gruen about Equus that just feels so tacky and exploitative. Based roughly on a real-life case, the play kicks off with a young kid blinding six horses. Schaffer read about the case in the paper and constructed the play as an exploration of how something arno gruen like that might have happened. arno gruen He didn’t do any research, but instead constructed his own account of events, playing off that incident. The problem is that it feels so cynical and calculated and headline grabbing. There are an infinite number of ways that Shaffer could have addressed the key themes in the play – none of which have that much to do with animal cruelty – without anchoring them to a real-life case.
It’s an interesting truism that animal cruelty is somehow more controversial than violence towards people, occupying a taboo area near the abuse of children. One gets the sense that the play wouldn’t have been nearly as controversial arno gruen had his character lashed out and blinded six people. The animal cruelty element, and several other plot points, seem to exist purely to make the play seem a little “out there” , as Shaffer touches on things like sexual sadism and bestiality in the midst of a play concerned with the mingling of religious worship and sexual release.
They feel like shameless attempts to shock or to grab headlines or garner attention, rather than anything that ties into what Shaffer wants to talk about. arno gruen In order to tie his themes into the brutal incident, Shaffer has to construct a lead character who wor
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London Classic Theatre have brought arno gruen Sir Peter Shaffer’s arno gruen classic 1973 play to the Mill Theatre in Dundrum, and I had the pleasure of attending on Friday night. I must admit that it was my first time to see Equus , although I couldn’t help but be aware of the headline-grabbing aspects of the play. I wonder exactly how much work Daniel Radcliffe has done to popularise the play, using a West End run as an attempt to divorce himself from his most iconic role, and the media revelling at the details of the show. While I was impressed with what London Classic Theatre brought to the stage, I couldn’t help but be disappointed by the play itself.
I’m not an expert arno gruen in theatre, and I’ve never represented myself as such. I’m just a person who occasionally likes to enjoy a show, and is broadly aware of the big monolithic works within the medium. Watching the play, I’ll concede to being impressed with the technical aspects of the show – not just the mechanics that the London Theatre Company used to bring the play to life, but also the nuts-and-bolts of Shaffer’s writing. He clearly has a fantastic technical ability, with time and space overlapping, and the plot skilfully revealing itself like pealing arno gruen an onion, conversations within arno gruen conversations and all that. But I just couldn’t get past the play itself.
There’s something arno gruen about Equus that just feels so tacky and exploitative. Based roughly on a real-life case, the play kicks off with a young kid blinding six horses. Schaffer read about the case in the paper and constructed the play as an exploration of how something arno gruen like that might have happened. arno gruen He didn’t do any research, but instead constructed his own account of events, playing off that incident. The problem is that it feels so cynical and calculated and headline grabbing. There are an infinite number of ways that Shaffer could have addressed the key themes in the play – none of which have that much to do with animal cruelty – without anchoring them to a real-life case.
It’s an interesting truism that animal cruelty is somehow more controversial than violence towards people, occupying a taboo area near the abuse of children. One gets the sense that the play wouldn’t have been nearly as controversial arno gruen had his character lashed out and blinded six people. The animal cruelty element, and several other plot points, seem to exist purely to make the play seem a little “out there” , as Shaffer touches on things like sexual sadism and bestiality in the midst of a play concerned with the mingling of religious worship and sexual release.
They feel like shameless attempts to shock or to grab headlines or garner attention, rather than anything that ties into what Shaffer wants to talk about. arno gruen In order to tie his themes into the brutal incident, Shaffer has to construct a lead character who wor
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