"I had to create a mental world in which the crime could be made comprehensible."

-- Peter Shaffer

 

This is a play about a boy who worships horses.
On secret nights, he kneels before a wall-poster of stallions and weeps.
He whips himself so he can feel their pain.
He leads them out from the stables to moonlit fields.
Humbled before the eyes of his god, he rides the horse with the desperation of a prayer.

 

And then one night, in a fit of inexplicable torment, Alan Strang, the boy in question, commits a monstrous crime:

he blinds six horses with a metal spike.

 

The play begins with a psychiatrist named Martin Dysart treating Alan for his trauma. What follows, for both Dysart and the audience, is an act in trying to comprehend Mr. Strang and his crime, in trying to uncover what was lost (and what was gained) when we took away the Gods.

 

CHARACTERS:

Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist

Alan Strang

Frank Strang, his agnostic father

Dora Strang, his pious mother

Hesther Solomon, a magistrate, Alan's legal representative

Jill Mason, a girl who works with Alan at the Stables

Harry Dalton, the stable owner

A Young Horseman

A Nurse

 

Six Actors - including the Young Horseman, appear as Horses. They are our Chorus, our friends, our dancers - and the faces of God's Wrath.

 

SHOW DATES:

Feb 26th - 28th, 2015, EPC.

 

CLICK HERE TO STAFF THE SHOW! We're looking for producers, stage managers and assitant designers.

CLICK HERE TO AUDITION!