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Equus by Peter Shaffer
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it was amazing
bookshelves: genre-drama, won-tony-award, rating-five-stars, saw-film, own-film

Trust me: it's not just that play about Harry Potter getting (a) naked and (b) it on with a horse. It's about the construction of God and meaning in the modern waste land; and perhaps even more compellingly, about the moral dilemma of a therapist who has to convince his patient to abandon all escape routes and return to the waste land. (In that sense, it reminds me a great deal of Pat Barker's Regeneration .) It's a play of ideas, basically, only thinly veiled by its outrageous subject matter. Pointed and powerful; if the final scene doesn't give you chills, well, you're just WRONG.
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Reading Progress

Finished Reading
June 14, 2007 – Shelved
June 14, 2007 – Shelved as: genre-drama
June 15, 2007 – Shelved as: won-tony-award
June 20, 2007 – Shelved as: rating-five-stars
May 7, 2012 – Shelved as: saw-film
May 9, 2012 – Shelved as: own-film

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message 1: by Bob (new) - rated it 5 stars

Bob You are so right. This is such a power drama of god and meaning.


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