Peter Shaffer. EQUUS, rež. Jokūbas BRAZYS

Director - Jakūbas BRAZYS

Set designer - Guoda JARUŠEVIČIŹĖ

Costume designer - Karolina FIODOROVAITĖ

Composer - Mantas MOCKUS

Lighting artist — Vilius VILUTIS

Video projection designers — Vilius VILUTIS, Martynas UNGURYS

Producer — Rugilė PUKŠTYTĖ

Set designer assistant — Augustė SMALIUKAITĖ

Director's assistant — Bartė LIAGAITĖ

Martinas Daisartas (psychiatrist) — Dainius GAVENONIS

Alens Strengas — Dziugas GRINYS

Frenkas Strengas (father) — Arūnas VOZBUTAS

Dora Streng (mother) — Dalia MICHELEVIČIŪTĖ

Hestera Salomon - Elzė GUDAVIČIŹĖ

Žilė Mason - Gerda ČURAITĖ

Haris Daltonas - Povilas BUDRYS

Horse - Laurynas JURGELIS

Woman - Neringa BULOTAITĖ

The art of horsemanship is to develop the horse's innate athletic qualities by using advanced riding methods. To encourage his desire to demonstrate these qualities. The highest level is reached when the horse immediately obeys even the mildest commands of the rider without resistance, but remains relaxed and, seems to work effortlessly.

Seventeen-year-old Alan Strang pokes out the eyes of six horses.

The art of riding - the horse's fur must be extremely clean, cleaned several times, sometimes even polished with various means. The nostrils and ears are cleaned and visible. The hooves are usually blackened. The rider wears special white riding pants and a hat. belt, white high neck shirt worn.Gloves must be white, jacket must be black.

Seventeen-year-old Alan Strang pokes out the eyes of six horses.

Trying to understand Alan's obsessions, psychiatrist Martinas Daisarts embarks on a detective odyssey into the boy's depraved, terrifying subconscious. Having reached professional menopause, the doctor hides his disappointment with life in the pages of ancient Greek art albums and desperately seeks escape from his self-created routine. But his perception of sanity, of normality, of what is right and what is wrong, collapses when he realizes that the subconscious that must be true on the dissection table of such concepts is his own in the cul-de-sac of nightmares.

Alan's soul is destroyed by both the inadequacy of institutionalized religion and the lack of religiosity (as a form of mental and spiritual expression). He lives in a void echoing with frustrated desires and formless specters. He is tormented by the knowledge of what he cannot figure out. , because he cannot even begin to explore a reality he does not belong to anyway.

There is no way out, no choice, but to create your own deity - Equus, the horse, the archetypal beast that unleashes the devouring lust of life. But the deities must sacrifice. And when sacrifices run out, you must either sacrifice yourself or slaughter deity on her altar.

British playwright Peter Shaffer wrote this play in 1973 after hearing a story about a boy who maimed six horses in a small town in East England, Suffolk. The writer, never knowing the true circumstances of the event, used this fact for his story and made it up motives that could make a seventeen-year-old act like this. Peter Shaffer - a famous British author, playwright and screenwriter who won many awards (including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Tony), as well as an honorary doctorate from several universities degree, he was awarded the title of Knight of Great Britain. In the drama "Equus", the themes of faith, society's expectations, normality and resistance to everything that is ordinary and conventional are important to him. In this work, the writer dramatizes the conflict between Apollonian and Dionysian values ​​in human life.

The director Jokūbas Brazys, who chose the play "Equus" for his first performance at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater, focuses on the confrontation with his God. The viewer, like a detective, is invited to embark on a journey through Alan's subconscious in order to find out the motives of his actions, the price of normality and together with him stand in confrontation with your deities.

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