Equus

Year
1986 - 1987

Creatives
Director: Wim Tommassen

Production Leader: Arnold Keizer

Writer
Peter Shaffer

Synopsis
About the play, Shaffer said in 1973: "One weekend over two years ago, I was driving with a friend through bleak countryside. We passed a stable. Suddenly he was reminded by it of an alarming crime which he had heard about recently. He knew only one horrible detail, but it was enough to arouse in me an intense fascination. The act had been committed several years before by a highly disturbed young man. It had deeply shocked a local bench of magistrates. It lacked, finally, any coherent explanation. I knew very strongly that I wanted to interpret this dreadful event in some entirely personal way. I had to create a mental world in which the deed could be made comprehensible." Equus was first presented by The National Theatre at The Old Vic on 26 July 1973.

Cast
Chris Deen: Alan Strang

Bert Hansma: Martin Dysart

Paul Hulsman: Frank Strang (November Production)

Hans Jansen

Arnold Keizer

Elke Meiborg: Nurse / Dora Strang

Jan Slump: Horseman

Arnoud Thüss

Ingrid van Tuinen: Hester Salomon

Frank Volmerink: Harry Dalton

Wynzen de Vries: Frank Strang (March / April Production)

Trudie Wierts: Jill Mason

Ben Zuidema

Crew
Louise Casper (Mask Design)

Rink Hooijsma (Prompter)

Ad Kasse (Sound)

Gerard Kingma (Lighting)

Hanneke Niesink (Costumes)

Arnoud Thüss (PR)

Carolien Viehoff (Make-up)

Performances
March 30th1987: Kruithuis

March 31st 1987: Kruithuis

April 7th 1987: Kruithuis

November 18th 1987: Prinsentheater

November 24th 1987: Zwolle, Lerarenopleiding

Special Thanks
Paul Hinfelaar

Erik Verhagen

Freddie Brossois

Tjalling de Vries