Mrs Tremblay

Our Artode performance concept for Dysart’s dream:

The audience start of blindfolded. (There are possibly sound effects)

We start at the back of the room and move forward creating the following:

The Equus sound (humming and stamping)

Whispering

Singing (creepy nursery rhymes)

Screaming

Brushing past them

Creepy laughing

Possibly some character improvisations

Saying lines from the script- one per character~

(Suggestions for lines)

Dysart- ‘I can hear the creature’s voice’

Alan- ‘and Equus the Mighty rose against all! His enemies scatter, his enemies fall!’

Dora- ‘But if you knew God, Doctor, you would know about the Devil’

Frank- ‘Religion’s at the bottom of all this!’

Hesther- ‘He’s in pain, Martin’

Nurse- ‘Doctor! ... Doctor!’

Jill- ‘Stop it!’

Meanwhile Dysart is monologuing. When the sacrifice is over we stand behind the audience and tell them to take off their blindfolds.

There is blood on the floor and we are all covered in blood etc. Dysart is blindfolded and as he completes the monologue we act how we did to the audience to Dysart.

Finally, at the end of the performance when the Equus sound has reached a crescendo, we all shout ‘“Account for me” says staring Equus, “first account for me!”‘