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

Scenography Assistant — Augustė SMALIUKAITĖ

Director's assistant — Bartė LIAGAITĖ

Martinas Daisartas (psychiatrist) — Dainius GAVENONIS

Alenas Strengas — Džiugas GRINYS

Frenkas Strengas (father ) — Arūnas VOZBUTAS

Dora Streng (mother) — Dalia MICHELEVIČIŪTĖ

Hestera Salomon — Elzė GUDAVIČIUTĖ

Džilė 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 coat 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 shirt with a high neck. Gloves must be white, jacket - black.

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

Trying to understand Alan's obsessions, psychiatrist Martin Daisarts goes 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 common sense, normality, what is right and what is wrong no, it collapses when he realizes that the subconscious that must be true on the dissecting table of such concepts is his own. Entering Alan's labyrinth of madness, the psychiatrist gets lost in the cul-de-sac of his own fears and 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 can't even begin to explore a reality he doesn't 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 deities must be sacrificed. And when sacrifices run out, you must either sacrifice yourself or slaughter deity on her altar.

The British playwright Peter Shaffer wrote this piece in 1973 after hearing a story about a guy 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 have made a seventeen-year-old act like that.Peter Shaffer - famous in Great Britain award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter (including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Tony), as well as an honorary doctorate from several universities, and an honorary knighthood for Shaffer in the drama Equus important themes of faith, societal customs, expectations, normality and resistance to all that is usual and conventional.In this work, the writer dramatizes the conflict between Apollonian and Dionysian values ​​in human life.

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 stand with him in confrontation with his own deities.

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