Immerse Yourself in the Gunpowder Plot

The Gunpowder Plot is the latest immersive experience from Layered Reality, the award-winning producers of Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience, opening on 20th May 2022 in Tower Vaults at the Tower of London.

The experience integrates immersive theatre and virtual reality. Live actors, the latest in digital technology and a cavalcade of multi-sensory special effects combine to allow audiences to step back in time to 1605. Audiences won’t just witness the action; they will play an active role in one of the greatest stories in British history.

Audiences will find themselves in a purpose-designed immersive theatre space in Tower Vaults, a location that was last accessible to the public two decades ago. Tower Vaults is situated alongside the infamous Tower of London, where much of the prelude to the real Gunpowder Plot took place over 400 years ago.

Created in collaboration with Historic Royal Palaces, this multi-sensory adventure is written by Olivier nominee Danny Robins, with creative direction by stage and games performance director Hannah Price. It combines a cast of over 50 digital actors and more than 20 live actors to create a truly hybrid theatrical experience. The role of Guy Fawkes will be played by Tom Felton, who first rose to fame playing another misguided character, Draco Malfoy, in the Harry Potter franchise.  

Each performance is limited to a maximum of 16 guests, with tickets available from GunpowderImmersive.com, so you can get up close and personal with history. Guests can be a part of the story, too, if they choose, with opportunities to interact with the actors, adding to the immersive nature of this unique experience. Each show will last for 1 hour 40 minutes, with a 20-minute interval during which you can enjoy a quick tipple at the specially recreated Duck and Drake tavern, where Fawkes and his co-conspirators are thought to have hatched the original plot.

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