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 ...

There are many ways to practice one’s faith. Bill Cain has chosen an unusual way, at least for a Jesuit priest. He pens thought- provoking dramas for stage and screen, including “Equivocation,” his ...

Bill Cain was a playwright with a problem. His 2009 drama EQUIVOCATION was an intriguing inquiry into how artists ethically respond to the politics of their time, in a speculative history of ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just when you thought nothing more could be said about the origin of Shakespeare's plays comes "Equivocation," Bill Cain's exhaustive and exhausting philosophical fantasia about authorial truth, ...