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The Arden Blog Tagged: 2015/16

What’s Equivocation about?

November 5, 2015

It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play…

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Questions For Shakespeare

October 22, 2015

Bill Cain spent months researching and writing Equivocation, a play that imagines a crisis in Shakespeare’s creative and personal life. He’s spent more time revising the script for production. Here…

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The Tension Between

October 22, 2015

By Dramaturg Jessica Bedford In an interview with New York magazine, playwright Bill Cain discussed his favorite example of equivocation. It comes from Miep Gies who told the Nazis, treat…

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A Tale of a Towel

October 21, 2015

By Brittany Brewer FIRST LAUNDRESS: What would you do with all the money in the world? SECOND LAUNDRESS: What a question. FIRST LAUNDRESS: I know what I’d do. [Pause]. Do…

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Inside the Splash Zone – performing Metamorphoses

October 13, 2015

By Krista Apple-Hodge (Aphrodite and others) I know what you’re wondering. And yes, the water is warm. Delightfully, wonderfully warm. As the audience takes their seats in the Haas theatre,…

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How to build a pool onstage (or, How I spent my summer vacation)

October 7, 2015

By Glenn Perlman, Technical Director Over the last couple of years, during season planning discussions each spring, I’d heard rumblings about us doing Metamorphoses — or as theatre technicians commonly…

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