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by Richard Burnett, April 7, 2011
Most folks know the play Equus because it starred that kid from Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, stripping buck naked on stage in both London’s West End and on Broadway. All in the name of art, of course, for playwright Peter Shaffer’s famed 1973 play, which tells the psychodrama (inspired by a real-life incident) of psychiatrist Martin Dysart uncovering why 17-year-old Alan Strang – sexually obsessed with horses – deliberately blinded six horses.
Strang is portrayed in the Montreal production by local actor Bobby Lamont, who doesn’t have a problem stripping for the stage. “To be honest, I haven’t spent any time worrying about how my own particular naked body will look in the context of our production of Equus,” says the handsome Lamont.
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