Hold Your Horses! Randy Harrison Cast in Berskhire Theater Festival’s Equus

Queer As Folk star Randy Harrison will play Alan Strang in the Berkshire Theater Festival’s upcoming production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus, which will run July 12-23. His co-stars will be Victor Slezak as Dr. Martin Dysart and Roberta Maxwell — who played Jill Mason in the original Broadway production — as Hester Salamon. Scott Schwartz (Bat Boy) will direct.

Equus concerns Alan Strang, a young man who inexplicably blinds six horses one night. In the mental hospital to which he is later confined, he meets Dr. Dysart, who tries to unravel the mystery behind this violent act. The original Broadway production of Equus won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play.

Harrison, who plays Justin Taylor on the Showtime series Queer As Folk, was seen on Broadway last summer as Boq in Wicked. In 2002, he appeared in the MCC production of A Letter from Ethel Kennedy with Jay Goede and Anita Gillette. Slezak’s Broadway credits include Any Given Day, Garden District, and The Graduate; earlier this year, he starred as Carl Jung in the Primary Stages revival of Sabina. Maxwell’s Broadway credits range from the original 1968 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to the 1996 Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Summer and Smoke; more recently, she has appeared Off-Broadway in The Persians for the National Actors Theater, The Carpetbagger’s Children at Lincoln Center, and Richard III at the Public Theater.