, United Kingdom
The Gunpowder Plot
A city divided. The fuse of rebellion is lit. The peace of the nation balances on a knife edge.
Layered Reality™ and Historic Royal Palaces present The Gunpowder Plot, a thrilling new immersive experience, opening May 2022 at Tower Vaults. London, 1605. A city divided. The fuse of rebellion is lit. The peace of the nation balances on a knife edge. Step into a world where spies and informants hide in every shadow. Your mission is to unmask the mysterious figures behind history’s most daring conspiracy. Go undercover and infiltrate their web of treason and plot. But when you’re surrounded by ‘traitors’ who can you trust? Inside the world the plotters inhabited, you are immersed in an unforgettable, fully 360 environment. You’re thrown into the heart of a story in which you are the protagonist. You’re not just watching. It’s happening. Using a combination of live action and digital technology you will journey back in time and experience the deception first hand, but will you stop the plot? Get Ready for A New Layered Reality™ Experience Experience London as it was in 1605. Your five senses will ignite as you make a dangerous attempt to escape the Tower, uncover a secret safehouse and make the daring journey along the Thames towards the Houses of Parliament. You’re not just witnessing history, you are part of it. “It’s like somebody made a brilliant movie version of The Gunpowder Plot and it came to life around you and exploded in your face with bits of Jacobean London flying at you.” - Danny Robins, Writer “Think extraordinarily detailed 360 sets that you can touch and feel and smell. Think boundary breaking immersive technology paired with cutting edge theatrical innovation. Everything we are working on is to make this dark and superbly rich world come to life, and this experience utterly unforgettable.” - Hannah Price, Creative Director
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Suitable for 10+.
Ages: All ages
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About Layered Reality
Layered Reality™ is the unique method we use to build our experiences using three ‘layers’ of multimedia. Layered Reality™ combines the latest digital tech (Virtual Reality, projection mapping and volumetric holograms) together with live theatre (live actors, movie-scale sets, and special effects) plus real physical sensations (touch, temperature, smell, sound and music, physical movement, and taste) to create an unique immersive experience that is truly memorable. Layered Reality’s Founder and CEO Andrew McGuinness explains: “Because you've got your nose smelling something your eyes are seeing, and then you can see a 150-foot Martian fighting machine, you’re really convinced that you are in that place, and you get a much more intense experience than you could ever have with one single layer. It's by bringing those layers together that the physical movement of your body tells you that this is real. This transports you to a totally new place for a couple of hours where you're immersed in another world.”