Tickets to the Broadway revival of Equus at Broadhurst Theatre in New York go on sale today at 10 a.m. Equus will run from September 5, 2008 until February 8, 2009.
Peter Shaffer wrote the play Equus in 1973 after hearing about a real-life case in which a 17-year-old boy blinded six horses in town near London. Shaffer didn’t know any details about the crime, but Equus is a fictional account of what could have caused the crime.
In other words: Equus isn’t what happened; it’s a play based on Shaffer’s imagination of what could have happened. It’s a story.
In Equus, a …read more