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” ...

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 overwhelming feeling after seeing Bill Cain’s Equivocation is that the playwright is incredibly brainy. This is mostly a good thing. It’s true that, despite Cain’s best efforts to rope us in at a ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Other than his magnificent plays, William Shakespeare left few traces of his life behind for posterity. That’s frustrated many theater-lovers. But it’s given modern dramatists a free pass to imagine ...

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 ...

How does one tell the truth when the news is fake? And what happens to our best selves when we resignedly swallow the lies and say nothing, fearing we’ll suffer if we speak out? While newly relevant, ...