The Geffen Playhouse has picked “Equivocation,” by Bill Cain, a Jesuit priest-cum-playwright, to fill the remaining slot in its coming 2009-10 season. The play is a piece of speculative historical fiction, set in London of 1606. The complicated premise: A foiled plot to blow up King James and Parliament -- now celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day, after the executed explosives expert who’d stashed multiple kegs of gunpowder under the House of Lords -- didn’t really go down the way the authorities reported it then, and how history has it now.
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