Equus (1974)

Written by Peter Shaffer
Directed by John Dexter
Cast: Peter Firth, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Higgins, Roberta Maxwell, Marian Seldes, Frances Sternhagen, Mary Doyle, Gus Kaikkonen

as Dysart in Equus, as directed by Brad Mays in May 1979 in Baltimore Martin Dysart is a psychiatrist working in a psychiatric hospital. He begins with a monologue in which he outlines the case of 17-year-old Alan Strang, who has blinded six horses. He divulges his feeling that his occupation is not all that he wishes it to be and his dissatisfaction and disappointment with his life.

Theater

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre · Broadway

Closed

October 2, 1977