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Equus explores how media fantasies feed a young man's violence

by Albert Williams

A 46-year-old play contains contemporary resonance in AstonRep's staging. A haunted and haunting lead performance by the excellent Sean William Kelly drives AstonRep Theatre Company's solid and moving production of Equus, the 1973 drama by British playwright Peter Shaffer (Amadeus). Kelly plays Alan Strang, a 17-year-old stable boy in southern England who blinds six horses with a spike, a…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 7:00am on October 2, 2019