Equus (play) Tom Hulce replaced Firth during the Broadway run. The Broadway production ran for 1,209 performances. Marian Seldes appeared in every single performance of the Broadway run, first in the role of Hesther and then as Dora. Shaffer also adapted his play for a 1977 film of the same name. Numerous other issues inform the narrative. Most important are religious and ritual sacrifice themes, and the manner in which character Alan Strang constructs a personal theology involving the horses and the supreme godhead, "Equus". Alan sees the horses as representative of God and confuses his adoration of his "God" with sexual
Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang (12 June 1922 – 19 December 2014) was a British Professor of Philosophy and hereditary peer. Strang was the only son of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 1968 to 1974. Strang was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Queens University, Belfast from 1951 to 1953 and at King's College, Newcastle from 1953 to 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at