Equus comes to Tehran’s Theater Hall

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

 

Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town in Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart to understand the cause of the boy's (Alan Strang) actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.

 

 

Rehearsals for the Equus troupe began two years ago but were halted due to a coronavirus pandemic. The play is ready to be performed in Hafez Hall with the beginning of a new round of rehearsals.

Mohammad Reza Basiri is the director of the play "Equus". He has a bachelor's degree in theater directing from the