Lean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer.
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An exhilarating and disturbing production that always stays true to the thrust of Shaffer’s play...
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My over-riding feeling is that I’ve not seen a more richly achieved production at Trafalgar Studios since its conversion from the Whitehall in 2004. It’s perfect for that constricted main-stage, a boundless pleasure.
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Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play gets a potent, almost expressionist revival by director Ned Bennett, which is better than it deserves.
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It’s a sweaty, sinewy, pulsing nightmare, a phantasmagoria of the dangers of repression and the potency of desire that grips and haunts the imagination.
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Ned Bennett brilliantly directs the landmark 1973 play about a teenager who has blinded horses.
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Bennett takes this carefully structured, well-written play and tries to make it fit with a visual aesthetic to which it’s not naturally suited – the effect is stark and striking, and really quite brilliant.
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