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Telling the truth – then and now. An interview with the author of Equivocation 

Equivocation, opening next Monday at Arena Stage, is an unusual play and its author is an unusual playwright. In the play, Robert Cecil, spymaster to King James I, commissions William Shakespeare – here known familiarly as “Shag” – to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot, an unsuccessful effort to dynamite the House of Lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament.

The play, Cecil instructs, will tell the world about the murderous and treasonous conspiracy of Father Henry Garnet and the English Catholics.

Except when Shag does his research, Cecil’s version of events seems implausible. Seems impossible.

In an ordinary play, the protagonist would rail against the public lie, would tell the truth and triumph improbably (a romance) or die (a tragedy).

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But this is not an ordinary play. In this play, Shag equivocates, and manages to tell a story which is no THEATER : Now starring: Shakespeare : As playwright Bill Cain ... HEX