What is the stage show equus with Daniel Radcliffe about?
Equus is about a young man with a belief that horses are holy. His religion leads him to believe that he is being watched and judged by his horse god, “Equus”. The young man, Alan, works at a stable where he is taken into psychiatric care following an incident in which he blinded horses at the stable. Hesther Saloman, a magistrate of the court and friend of a Dr. Dysart recommends that Dysart take Alan’s case. Hesther urges Dysart to make Alan ‘well’, and along the way he discovers that Alan was brought up with an extremely religious mother and a blasphemous father. Childhood events involving a horse on the beach are unearthed, and Dysart begins to sympathize with the young man. He doesn’t want to take Alan’s religion away, thinking that would be destructive to the boy. The nudity part in question is probably what you’re most interested in understanding, and it happens in the following context: Alan goes to the stable one night with a girl he likes, a coworker, named Jill. They begin t
