Harry Potter goes nude in Equus

Daniel Radcliffe, star of Harry Potter, has just been announced as the star of a new London revival of Equus. Richard Griffiths will co-star as the therapist who attempts to understand the 17-year-old stable boy who has blinded a stablefull of horses. Just the fact that the play is being revived is fantastic (and overdue), but I wonder about The Boy Who Lived's theater chops. This role is extremely challenging, incorporating a lot of strange and visceral religious themes in his journey into madness. The role also will require Radcliffe to get totally nude, completing the visual started in the fourth Harry Potter movie, in an uncomfortably long and bizarrely erotic bathtub scene. Nevertheless, it's a tour de force role for Richard Griffiths, and I'll be hoping for a transfer to New York, with or without the Potter boy.