This production commands attention and should certainly be seen by discerning theatregoers.
Forty-six years after it was first written, the boy who blinded horses remains a scintillating example of a playwright’s craft. When well executed, as is the case with its resurfacing in South Africa under the Pieter Toerien banner, it touches every fibre of our being.
Shaffer penned the play in 1973 and it told the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a 17-year-old boy who has a pathological fascination with horses. It was based on a true story which occurred in a small town near Suffolk. Though fictional, the playwright constructed an account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing details of the crime.
Hopkins once again demonstrates his enormous capacity for inhabiting a character. His sensitive shaping of Dysart taps into the depth of the character as he questions his own beliefs.
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