While listening to a story, watching a movie or reading a history book, it’s always important to consider the storyteller and what his or her perspective is ““ the great playwright William Shakespeare ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Cain's new play set in 1606 England begins when King James’ right hand man commissions William Shakespeare to write a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, a recent failed attempt to blow up ...

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 ...

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