On Sept. 11, 2001, playwright Bill Cain watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn and collapse. That cataclysm inspired him to write a play, “Equivocation,” which made its California premiere Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse (it debuted earlier this year at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival).
Like most good artists, Cain addressed the messy issues of 9-11 and its aftermath through inference and metaphor – a method often employed by Shakespeare, for example, who deftly tackled contemporary political controversies by cloaking them in history and fiction.
