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Equivocation is a revisionist Shakespearean tale that goes on too long

by Dan Jakes

Mixing the Bard up with the Gunpowder Plot doesn't help Bill Cain's play ignite dramatically. The setup to Bill Cain's revisionist Shakespearean fairy tale is the sort of juicy, rebellious, intrigue-filled "what if" fantasy that would make Quentin Tarantino proud: What if a villainous Lord Robert Cecil (Michael Dalberg) approached the Bard (Brendan Hutt) and his company to create a propag…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 7:00am on September 25, 2019