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daniel radcliffe equus review

Daniel Radcliffe (left) as Alan Strang and Lorenzo Pisoni as the beloved horse Nugget in ''Equus.'' That extra dimension has always been concentrated in Mr. Radcliffe’s Alsatian-blue gaze, very handy for glaring down otherworldly ghouls if you’re Harry Potter. T he last time Peter Shaffer’s Equus bestrode the West End stage, in 2007, two things were striking about the coverage. Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Radcliffe (who stops short of the all-out religious ecstasy of Peter Firth, who created his part) are delivering utterly credible and often affecting performances. ( Log Out /  We particularly enjoyed the box office’s description: “on stage seating should be viewed as a theatrical experience”, as opposed to what? But taking it too seriously may not be the best way to serve it in revival. Well, Phil certainly believed he was 17. Phil does a very good Harold Macmillan impression but sadly there’s not so much call for it these days. if i were less tired and strung out i might have found it somewhat comedic, but it seems that ‘west end whingers’ is just a website for four people with a combined extended vocabulary to attempt to impersonate an actual review team. kudos on the brilliant reply to michael’s comment you guys… im still rolling on the floor laughing… the PS completely made my day! But as he shines a light into the recesses of the boy’s mind he sees the landscape of a self-made, chthonic religion in which the horse is God. Andrew may have missed the most talked about event on the London stage, but perhaps he’ll pop in if they re-title Equus: Snake on a Mane. Afterwards, where else could the Whingers decamp to but the appropriately named watering-hole The White Horse, to discuss the meaning of the play. But Shaffer seems to be saying that Strang’s disturbed passionate world is preferable to the arid one of Dysart. Thanks for the review, interesting read as always. — even if it prohibits its possessors from fully belonging to human society. Daniel Radcliffe began acting when he was 6 years old, playing a monkey in a school play. i saw Paradise Regained recently at the Royal Court , a short 20 minute play with almost male nudity – hiding his modesty behind a towel was enough excitement for me ! (Phil – Ok, that’s enough puns – Andrew) (Andrew – Get off the review, it’s my turn in the saddle – Phil). Both come of age in a menacing, magical world where the prospect of being devoured by darkness is always imminent. The revelation of this revival is that Daniel Radcliffe really can act...As a story, it is compelling." Phil does dribble but that doesn’t really come across particularly in his writing, generally speaking. To buy into the innate worth of Alan’s raging fantasies, we more than ever have to feel viscerally the exhilaration he feels. Nothing here truly convinces. Well, he says alone, but he found himself trotting off to the Gielgud Theatre with a couple of fillies, Sharon and Margie, both self-confessed Harry Potter fans and stallion Paul. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. and then he says "No more. i forgot to get my money back and still havent worked out how to drink out of them . Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes. Review - The Lord of the Rings - The Musical! I’m going to use that description on my next visit to Popstarz. All coughing stopped as one special cast member took the spotlight. Does he just mean he went out clubbing a lot as a teenager? But convincing as an intense, repressed and guilty 17 year old? And although doing healthy business, unlike Madonna, he’s not selling out. But my favourite memory of the night is reading the biography of Temujin Gill who said his interest began on ‘the social dance scene’. But as Alan’s child-warping parents, Carolyn McCormick and T. Ryder Smith offer broad emotions without the refining detail of individual character. PS: Best wishes to everyone at Cookshop Industries. You have to wait until the last 15 minutes of the play for it – no leaving at the interval here (though some were spotted sneaking out). Phil’s thumb was wavering, but then it was gripped tightly round the Tempranillo. (Would-be Whinger Paul rather fancied one in his lounge). As I played Nugget / the Horseman (my finest hour in my Drama school production of Equus I feel I should comment .. our Alan Strang was only informed that he would be doing a “full monty” a day before the show!! Dysart envies Strang’s passions. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Thumbs up from me on the production. was hoping to find an insightful review of the play seeing as my wife and i are both in australia and was saddened to have to read through this dribble. Like many beloved film actors Mr. Radcliffe has an air of heightened ordinariness, of the everyday lad who snags your attention with an extra, possibly dangerous gleam of intensity. ( Log Out /  Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor, best known for playing Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series during his adolescence and early adulthood.. Born and raised in London, Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in the BBC One television film David Copperfield (1999), followed by his feature film debut in The Tailor of Panama (2001). Such depth is to be envied — isn’t it? No wonder he seemed so at home. He sees you!...He sees you!" Personally, I winced whenever she opened her mouth, but I think the audience was hungry for the sort of campy grandeur she provided. Mr. Griffiths, who won a Tony as the inspiring, student-fondling teacher in Alan Bennett’s “History Boys,” plays Dysart with less masochistic swagger than I’ve ever seen. WITH: Richard Griffiths (Martin Dysart), Daniel Radcliffe (Alan Strang), Anna Camp (Jill Mason), Carolyn McCormick (Dora Strang), Lorenzo Pisoni (the Young Horseman/Nugget), T. Ryder Smith (Frank Strang), Graeme Malcolm (Harry Dalton), Sandra Shipley (Nurse) and Kate Mulgrew (Hesther Saloman). Who made you? Yes, Daniel Radcliffe is making his hotly anticipated Broadway debut as the 17-year-old British boy Alan Strang, who blinds six … Yes, you’re right. Putting "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe on stage as a seriously disturbed adolescent who blinds horses was always going to … We do offer our sincerest wishes that you and your wife find something more in your line soon and we apologise for intruding. Stretching without tearing is presumably what Mr. Radcliffe, who has spent most of his adolescence playing the schoolboy sorcerer in the globally popular Harry Potter movies, had in mind when he took on the role of Alan Strang, a 17-year-old suburban stableboy who commits grotesque and seemingly inexplicable crimes against horses. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Through Feb. 8. And that scene? It’s the perfect space for the scenes to blend in and out of each other. From left, Daniel Radcliffe, Lorenzo Pisoni and Richard Griffiths in the Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus.”. if anyone knows of a website that actually reviewed his performance rather than focusing on cliches and daniel radcliffe’s ‘winky’ i’d love to hear about it. It’s a cryptic puzzle and Shaffer, as usual, misses no opportunities to throw in classical references to make it seem a very big intellectual exercise indeed. Daniel Radcliffe interview on Equus, and about the openeing night Or if you’re Alan Strang, for blocking and enticing frightened grown-ups who both do and do not want to understand why you act as you do. For Dysart, a man in a sterile marriage who has measured out his life in patients’ files and annual holidays in Greece, Alan’s inner existence has the mythic grandeur of Homer’s Olympus. Equus, a middlebrow sensation in 1974 thanks to big ideas and a little class, has returned to Broadway. A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses. I just finished reading Equus, the 1975 Tony-award winning play written by Peter Shaffer and recently revived on Broadway with stars Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths. Yet for all the inventive stagecraft of John Napier, the designer of this and the first production, and Ms. Sharrock (who stays close to the spirit of John Dexter’s original direction) — for all the prancing horse-masked dancers on the revolving stage with its Stonehenge-like blocks — I never felt a ripple of vicarious passion. Anna Camp is appealingly natural as the young woman who unwittingly leads Alan to his acts of destruction. Bernie – I’m sorry to disappoint. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. put in the care of psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Griffiths). The difference is that for Harry that world is outside of him; Alan’s is of his own creation. Dysart’s passionless life is called into question as he finds out more about Strang’s behaviour. Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the five "Harry Potter" films, acquits himself admirably with a confident Broadway debut as the disturbed adolescent Alan Strang at the core of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 psychodrama Equus. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. For Alan Strang is, in a sense, a tidy inversion of Harry Potter. Presented by the Shubert Organization, Elizabeth I. McCann, Roger Berlind, John Gore, Hirschfeld Productions, Bill Kenwright, Emily Fisher Landau, Arielle Tepper Madover, Peter May, Chase Mishkin and Spring Sirkin. On the other hand, Mr. Griffiths does banality beautifully, presenting Dysart in the early scenes as someone who has smoothed out every utterance to the same level of flat, professional detachment, lightly spiced with witty self-deprecation. By Peter Shaffer; directed by Thea Sharrock; designed by John Napier; lighting by David Hersey; sound by Gregory Clarke; movement by Fin Walker; production stage manager, Susie Cordon; general manager, Joey Parnes. But the one stripping everything away in the revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus at the Broadhurst isn't the one who's been populating the headlines. very enjoyable whinge ! Ms. Mulgrew, for the record, was the only cast member awarded with exit applause before the final curtain when I saw the show (this after a particularly flamboyant declaration to Dysart). He resists the temptation to play hotdog surfer, riding the purple waves of Mr. Shaffer’s symbol-saturated monologues. So lets give Daniel a break, congratulate him on taking on a truly tough role, and concentrate on the themes of the play? This version had no crackling artificial fire to match the annoying smoke that kept rising through the stage floor. He suffered the same understandable ‘manhood shrinkage’… fear will do that to a chap! Some of the audience sit above the stage, but they don’t really distract. Dysart acknowledges that what Alan has done is unspeakable. But while I can’t imagine another actor making more sense of Dysart, I’m not sure that the character — or for that matter, the play — benefits from such scrupulous treatment. I do realise how difficult it must be to figure out what Phil’s trying to say during his solo reviews, but please humour him. BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE for THE TIMES says, " Radcliffe proves an assured actor...though gripping and theatrically skilful, Equus is at root dated, pretentious and even a bit pernicious...good theatrical effect...an enjoyable play. Being of a somewhat sensitive and nervous disposition, the idea of horses having their eyes poked out on stage proved a little too much for him. Daniel Radcliffe shook off the mantle of Harry Potter on Wednesday to win rave reviews for his stage portrayal of a tortured teenager in the gruelling psychological thriller "Equus". But Kate Mulgrew, as the magistrate who is Dysart’s confidante, is alternately as plummy and mannered as a society matron in a Maugham drawing-room comedy and as portentous as a sinister housekeeper in a creaky-old-house chiller. Wild horses couldn’t drag Andrew to Peter Shaffer’s Equus. Daniel Radcliffe arrives for a performance of Equus in 2008 West End producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers revived Equus in 2007, starring Richard Griffiths , Daniel Radcliffe , … Daniel Radcliffe is fine. ( Log Out /  Well, Phil can report that he found the wonderful Richard Griffiths subtle, but slightly subdued, and struggling to control a cough (which he did contain rather well). This entry was posted on Tuesday 20 March 2007 at 3:32 pm and is filed under Daniel Radcliffe, Equus, London, review, Richard Griffiths, theatre, west end. He builds Dysart’s character with care, so when the eruptions of naked doubt, self-contempt and sorrow finally break out, he’s earned them. And as much as I admired the sensitivity and intelligence of Mr. Griffiths’s and Mr. Radcliffe’s performances, this revival might have been better off if everyone had just gone for the Gothic. We were just out of the 1960s when “Equus” arrived, and this creed of communing with one’s inner madman had more appeal than it does today, when people are doing their best to hold themselves together as familiar social structures threaten collapse. Now, we’re a bit concerned that you say you were saddened to have to read through it? Three out of four gave Equus the thumbs up. It's Equus' perverse and muddled morality that's the problem, says Susannah Clapp. Like many beloved film actors Mr. Radcliffe has an air of heightened ordinariness, of the everyday lad who snags your attention with an extra, possibly dangerous gleam of intensity. Whoever it is, you should report them to the authorities as it clearly constitutes abuse of the worst kind. 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