Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Playwright Peter Shaffer caused a sensation back in 1973 with this play about a psychiatrist treating a teenage boy after he blinded a stable full of horses.
The conversation about the premise and “meaning” of Equus continued when the movie adaptation, directed by Sidney Lumet, hit screens in 1977.The plot: a neurotic psychiatrist named Dysart (Richard Burton) begins to treat 17-year-old Alan (Peter Firth) after the latter blinds the aforementioned horses.