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 ...

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 ...

The line between lies and the truth is easily blurred. An extensive vocabulary and a deft use of syntax can muddy perception and call into question the very meaning of honesty. The artful use of ...

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 ...

In Bill Cain’s play “Equivocation,” a priest recounts to William Shakespeare that one of his fellow educators says he taught Shakespeare everything he knows. To which Shakespeare replies that the ...

Just when you thought nothing more could be said about the origin of Shakespeare's plays comes "Equivocation," Bill Cain's exhaustive and exhausting philosophical fantasia about authorial truth, ...

What if, instead of writing the play, Shakespeare was the subject of it? That’s the theatrical idea behind Equivocation, playwright Bill Cain’s drama, where Shagspeare is the protagonist, not the ...

You could define middlebrow art as a shallow stab at something substantial. That would pretty much cover Bill Cain’s Equivocation. Cain’s script, which premiered at Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare ...

Widespread acclaim greeted the world premier of Equivocation, a new play by Bill Cain, S.J., that opened in April at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., where it runs until Oct. 31. The ...