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” ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the word “equivocate” was in 1590. The dictionary further states the word has a couple of meanings: To use language especially with intent to ...

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 ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15 4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere In 1605 London, the worlds of King James and the Gunpowder Plot collide with William "Shagspeare" ...

THE BASICS: EQUIVOCATION, a play by the impressive Bill Cain about Shakespeare set in 1606, directed by the brilliant Katie Mallinson, with a stellar ensemble of Guy Balotine, Arianne Davidow, ...

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 ...