"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 ...

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At a pivotal moment in “Equivocation,” a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: “It’s not a way, to lie, you know. It’s a way of telling the truth.” The ...

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 ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. It’s 1605 and a well-known local playwright named Williams Shagspeare (Christian ...

At the intermission of Equivocation, this summer’s traditional non-Shakespeare-but-related-to-Shakespeare offering from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, I found myself exultant, almost floating ...

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 ...