Equus by Peter Shaffer

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*** 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.