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...Equus. The Anthony Perkins Broadway hit about psychoanalysis and horses. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont Street, Boston. Starts November 18, with evening performances at 8 p.m., matinees at 2 p.m. Previews November 13, 14 and 17 (evenings), and November 15 (evening and matinee...
...parading him across stage on all fours would today surely elicit laughter at what is intended as a serious and even terrifying moment. Kahn takes the best approach by stylizing the animal, somewhat along the lines of the horses currently to be seen on Broadway in Shaffer's Equus. The bear is undisguisedly a person on two feet wearing a golden bear's head. Since the bear devours Antigonus offstage, that's one problem no director need tackle...
...Other winners: Best Play, Equus; Best Director of a Play, John Dexter (Equus); Best Actors and Actress in Plays, John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island), and Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year); Best Actor and Actress in Musicals, John Cullum (Shenandoah) and Angela Lansbury (Gypsy...
...Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth in the psychological tour de force Equus. Even Liv Ullmann turned up, though in a disappointing production of A Doll's House; her presence gave the season an extra glow...
...season began with hit after hit. Playwright Neil Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season's hottest ticket, Bernard Slade's exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next Year...