LONDON -- Daniel Radcliffe will str...

LONDON -- Daniel Radcliffe will strip along his Harry Potter eyeglasses and everything otherwise for his London stage first attempt next year.

The 17-year-old actor, who plays the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Hollywood adaptations of JK Rowling's novels, will star as a troubl stableboy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."

The play digs into the psyche of a lad named Alan Strang who blinds six horses with a metal spike. The production is scheduled to spread next March in the West fall of the curtain theater district, said spokesman Peter Thompson

In single in kind scene the actor playing Strang is required to simulate sexual ecstasy while riding a horse naked. yet Radcliffe's spokeswoman, Vanessa Davies, said nudity was not the focus of the play.

"He is maturing as an actor and beginning to take in succession new and challenging roles," Davies said.

Radcliffe is now filming "Harry trifle and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth installment in Harry's adventures, and lately finished shooting "December Boys," the story of four orphans.

"Equus" exhibited in 1973 at London's National Theatre. Richard Burton starred in a 1977 film adaptation.

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