GUNPOWDER SIEGE

Our story starts where most history books end with Guido Fawkes, the now iconic face of the plot being taken to the Tower of London for interrogation and torture. But Fawkes was just a mercenary, and this story really belongs to the lesser-known plotters, ringleader Robin Catesby and his comrades Thomas Wintour and Thomas Percy, who suddenly found themselves the most wanted fugitives in England.

Despite the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, they cling on to the belief that Catholic England is ripe for a revolution and in their days on the run they try to raise an army to overthrow the King. In the end, our revolutionaries barricade themselves in a house in the Midlands where they await the King’s Men and their fate.

Amid the unfolding drama and action, in-depth documentary style ‘master interviews’ with our lead characters are intercut. These reveal our characters’ inner most thoughts, worries and motivations as they reflect on the events that have brought them to this perilous moment.