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The Rumors Were True: Radcliffe Starring in Equus
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We reported back in December on a vaguely specious-sounding rumor that young Daniel Radcliffe was in talks to play Alan Strang in a stage version of Equus. For those of you not up on your edgy theater, Equus is a Peter Shaffer play that features, in addition to horse-blinding, equine-related arousal and full-frontal nudity. (Whether Potter fans recoiled in horror or dropped to their knees in prayerful thanks upon hearing the rumor depended entirely on whether they'd hit puberty or not.)It turns out, surprisingly enough, that the rumors were true, and rehearsals for Equus will begin in January (shortly after shooting on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ends) with the play expected to open in the spring. Though there's been no confirmation that Kenneth Branagh will direct, as was originally rumored, Reuters is confirming that Richard Griffiths, better known to Potterites as Harry's Uncle Vernon, will star alongside Radcliffe in the role of the psychiatrist who interviews Strang after that whole horse-blinding thing.
Daniel Radcliffe in talks for a new kind of role
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I'm pretty sure that anyone who has heard of Peter
Shaffer's play Equus, whether they've read it or not, knows that it involves a boy who has a weird thing
going on with horses. Not only does he like to blind them, but he also finds the creatures rather...arousing. As
The Guardian delicately puts it, the "the plot involves the hero reaching the height of sexual ecstasy
while riding a horse."So, if reports from England are true - that Daniel Radcliffe is currently in talks to star in a Kenneth Branagh-directed production of the play - Shaffer's work might suddenly find itself playing to a very non-tradition demographic, namely shrieking teenage girls. Cover your ears, West End: the Potterites are coming!
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