Notwithstanding the slight confusion of staging anything involving The Gunpowder Plot on a balmy June night, I trotted along to the Tower of London’s newest attraction yesterday preparing to be amazed.
Through a mix of VR headsets and clever staging, the audience is put into the shoes of your bog-standard seventeenth century Catholic during the age of gunpowder treason and plot. You’re being persecuted for your beliefs, and you’re in the Tower of London for the simple crime of your religion – that is, until a mysterious person breaks you out.
