Part history lesson, part story behind the story and part portrait of a tired dramatist, "Equivocation" is jam packed with ideas, conflicts and fractured relationships. But despite the efforts of a ...

The cast of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 production of Equivocation, directed by Bill Rauch. Photograph by Jenny Graham It takes guts—and a little hubris—to write a play that includes “new” ...

"Why me?" William Shakespeare (or Shagspeare, as playwright Bill Cain spells it) asks when he's given an assignment -- by the king, no less -- to write a play about a hot-button political matter. Sir ...

It may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet. But Bill Cain’s “Equivocation” at Will Geer’s Theatricum ...

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Ask me what the play “Equivocation” is about and I could give you lots of answers, including God, souls, religion, politics, theater, acting … and more! Bill Cain’s play, about a man named William ...

Theater Next Act's "Equivocation" leaves the audience with just words, words, words Part history lesson, part story behind the story and part portrait of a tired dramatist, "Equivocation" is jam ...

Bill Cain’s play “Equivocation” has had a wild ride since its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last year. It quickly went on to play Seattle and Los Angeles, and last weekend it won ...

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday defended a recent speech she delivered to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, torching President Biden’s "betrayal of the ...

Matthew Lewis Johnson as Shakespeare and Anthony Haigh as Father Henry Garnet in AthensWest Theatre Co.’s production of Bill Cain’s “Equivocation,” opening this weekend. Mark Mozingo Athens West ...

Words, words, words -- they come at us from all directions in Bill Cain's "Equivocation," a passionate and boldly designed drama on the power of language to enlighten and elevate but just as ...

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