Equus by Peter Schaffer

Rude Guerrilla staging emphasizes the dark eroticism of Peter Shaffer's 1973 drama. By ERIC MARCHESE Special to the Register

"Leading Rodriguez's cast is Rude Guerrilla veteran Fraley. With slightly graying hair and glasses perched on the end of his nose, his Dysart is at first intrigued with Alan only from a clinical standpoint - erudite and casually self-assured, but clearly fraying around the edges. Fraley conveys the duality of his character's nature: His deep sense of pride in his professional proficiency and his regret over having sublimated his passions to conform with society's image of a man of medicine. By the end of "Equus," he's racked with self-loathing, his own tortured psyche having been exposed by the most harrowing case he has ever treated."