Equus by Peter Shaffer

*** Playwright Sir Peter Shaffer joins 4 Extra's 100 Club - born 15th May 1926. He died in 2016 aged 90 ***

Dysart: "With one particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces. The animal digs its sweaty brow into his cheek and they stand in the dark for an hour - like a necking couple....."

Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is asked by a local magistrate to take on an unusual case.

He soon finds himself in the midst of a nightmare - his patient is a 17-year-old boy who's blinded six horses with a metal spike.

Starring Peter Barkworth and Ian Sharrock.

The most shocking play of its day, Peter Shaffer's original stage production opened in 1973 at the National Theatre in London

Martin Dysart ... Peter Barkworth
Alan Strang ... Ian Sharrock
Hesther Salomon ... Jennifer Piercey
Frank Strang ... Malcolm Hayes
Dora Strang ... Jane Wenham
Jill Mason ... Jenny Twigge
Harry Dalton ... Ronald Herdman
A Young Horseman ... Philip Sully
A Nurse ... Jan Care

Other voices:

Richard Gibson
Nigel Greaves
David Parfitt
Jonathan Scott

Special sound by Dick Mills of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Director: David Spenser

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1980.