"The Present; Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital, Southern England" . "* Horseman" . "Equus"@en . "1973Z"^^ . . "* Nurse" . "* Martin Dysart" . "* Harry Dalton" . "* Jill Mason" . "* Alan Strang" . "* Hesther Soloman" . "17-year-old boy blinds six horses with spike, case becomes a catalyst for his psychiatrist's own doubts" . "* Frank Strang" . "* Dora Strang" . "* Nugget" . . . "Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime."@en .