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LEICESTER, United Kingdom – One of the chief cultural differences between the United States and Great Britain is the main day to celebrate with fireworks.
In America, it is the Fourth of July and marks the country’s independence from Britain itself. In the United Kingdom itself, the date is November 5 – Guy Fawkes Night – and historically represents the country’s anti-Catholic stance.
A musical marking the Gunpowder Plot – the November 5, 1605, attempt to plow up Parliament and murder King James I – will take place Oct. 25-28 in the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Guy Fawkes Night was required attendance soon after the plot and named for the man put in charge of the explosives in the plot to try to blow up parliament. Effigies of the traitor and prominent Catholic figures like the Pope were set on fire as the fireworks were set off.
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In America, it is the Fourth of July and marks the country’s independence from Britain itself. In the United Kingdom itself, the date is November 5 – Guy Fawkes Night – and historically represents the country’s anti-Catholic stance.
A musical marking the Gunpowder Plot – the November 5, 1605, attempt to plow up Parliament and murder King James I – will take place Oct. 25-28 in the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Guy Fawkes Night was required attendance soon after the plot and named for the man put in charge of the explosives in the plot to try to blow up parliament. Effigies of the traitor and prominent Catholic figures like the Pope were set on fire as the fireworks were set off.
Continued below.
New musical play shows anti-Catholic history of British firework celebration
A musical marking the Gunpowder Plot – the November 5, 1605, attempt to plow up Parliament and murder King James I – will take place Oct. 25-28 in the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
