Max Silverman
Composer, Sound Designer
God’s Spies
by Bill Cain
directed by Hal Brooks
technical direction by Max Silverman
Thursday & Saturday – July 22 & 24 at 7pm ET
What do you write after you have written the world’s greatest play? Hopefully, not another Timon of Athens. Fortunately for Shakespeare, he is caught in the middle of the pandemic of 1603 and theaters are closed for a year. The plague opens his eyes to the mysteries of life and death when he is quarantined with his pod-companions-in-lockdown – a young Puritan lawyer and a mature streetwise prostitute. Will Shakespeare thrive creatively during quarantine? Will his follow up play be as disappointing as his last? Or will he write his masterpiece? A commission from Florida Studio Theater.
Bill Cain is the author of Equivocation (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); 9 Circles (Marin Theatre); How to Write a New Book for the Bible (Berkeley Rep/Seattle Rep). Stand-Up Tragedy (Mark Taper Forum- six LA Critics Awards, Arena Stage- three Helen Hayes Awards, Hartford Stage and ultimately Broadway- Joe A. Calloway Award). He has twice received the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. For television he was the creator/writer/producer of the ABC series Nothing Sacred, which received both a WGA and Peabody Award. He is the author of the recently published book The Diary of Jesus Christ, available from Orbis Books.