Equus (play) Equus (play) Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write "Equus" when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist Dr. Martin
Alan Harris collaboration with United States composer Mark Swanson. Radio plays include The Gold Farmer for BBC Radio 3's The Wire season and plays for BBC Radio 4. His debut stage play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru. He is the winner of a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales and represented by Nick Quinn at The Agency, London. Alan Harris Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including Paines Plough and National Theatre Wales. He won a Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for his play How