Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Animal magic | 25 July 2019

Plus: I admired every aspect of Noël Coward Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana but I couldn’t get excited by it

issue 27 July 2019

Equus is a psychological thriller from 1973 which opens with a revolting discovery. An unbalanced stable-lad, Alan, spends his evenings taking the horses out for an illicit gallop. Meanwhile, he’s busy seducing a hot young cowgirl at the farm but his awakening sexuality confuses him. The girl’s erotic nature brings out his closeted gay side and he tries to purge his homosexuality by stabbing six stallions in the eyes.

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