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
William Strang wrote short stories but these were not published. William married Agnes McSymon Rogerson (d.1933), also from Dumbarton, in 1885. They had four sons and one daughter. His sons Ian Strang (1886-1952) and David Strang (1887-1967) were both artists. William had at least one granddaughter, Joan Strang, born of David's short-lived marriage to the English soprano Dora Labbette. In 1955 David Strang gifted the bulk of William Strang's etchings to the National Gallery of Scotland, many of which were annotated by David for clarification on subject matter. William Strang William Strang RA (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a