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Where I've Been:
Sunday in the City with my mother and daughters to see EQUUS
I was inches away from Daniel Radcliffe yesterday
That does not sound right. (No naked jokes inserted here, please.) {}
Radcliffe is an amazing actor, starring on Broadway in a revival of EQUUS
I was not familiar with the story and had few expectations (except the promotional buzz of Radcliffe's nude scenes)
But his acting left his flesh exposed and unclothed from the first moment he appeared until the end of the play (when, ironically, he is wrapped in a blanket and protected from what he has been through)
That story peels open, like a curtain rising in slow-motion, more and more of the set and sound and pain and beauty revealed as the peep-hole becomes the panaroma
And that story
The juxtaposition of what one confronts to understand our life and our actions
and whether healing and making something and someone whole is always the answer
That's how I want to write. Completely inside the heads of the action
and the actors. Feeling as if the story is yours as you stare through the small opening of the telescope and watch the great sky in wonder.
Spellbinding
Powerful
Charming
and while he will always have "Harry" to thank for his theatrical career,
it is Radcliffe's talent that will take him wherever he wants to go, no matter how long he chooses to
put it ALL out there on the stage
(I told you. No naked jokes.)



After the show, we waited near the front of the rope line and waved as he signed autographs for the manic fans. My daughters could not get close enough and their disappointment in not getting to see him truly eye-to-eye was the only downer of the day. My older daughter wrote a charming fan note to Daniel Radcliffe many years ago when he first became famous. We never mailed the letter. I don't know why. I have it, somewhere. I know what it feels like to be close to someone, close enough to feel a kinship and too far away to touch in real life. And if you could, what do you say? Thank you? I love you? Sign my ticket? No. Sometimes, it's just better to watch someone do what they do from afar. Naked or not. (The actor and the audience both.)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?'"