“Extremity is the point”: Thoughts from the Director:

Today’s world bombards every waking – and sleeping – moment with images, information, ideas, sounds, tastes, smells, atmospheres … arguably we are living in the most sensual and sensually awakened world possible. But this melange of apparently infinite choices comes with a very real danger. It is as easy to get swept away by it as it is to get swept out of it.

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Peter Shaffer’s Equus delves into the mind of 17-year old Alan Strang who blinds six horses in an inexplicable fit. Through a series of encounters with a psychiatrist, we come face to face with more questions than answers. What is normal, what is worship, what is passion, what is individuality? Equus addresses these issues using the mythic figure of a horse as metaphor for worship, passion, pain and danger.

Ranan’s staging uses movement, classical dance and verbal text to explore these themes and questions, finding echoes of Equus in the world we inhabit today: a paradoxical world where inclusion and enhanced technological connectivity go hand in hand with exclusion and human disconnect. The production brings together actors, dancers, designers and technical personnel in an experience that treads the thin line between sensuality and brutality, normalcy and insanity, primal forces and contemporary pressures.

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