On a dark stage lit by a sole spotlight sits a man, working. His pen moves furiously on the page. Around him, more pages flutter down from the heavens, like leaves on a fall day. The man is William ...

Jesuit priest Bill Cain spun his Lower East Side teaching experience into the 1989 play, Stand-Up Tragedy. His second major play, Equivocation, is a “speculative history” of the Gunpowder Plot—an ...

Lebanese equivocation is a chronic existential threat engendered by successive periods of subjugation and occupation. These factors have generated two discourses: both considered “patriotic” by those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Were William Shakespeare one of today’s bloviating Beltway pundits, ...

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 ...