Fake Magic, by Vincent Gambini (aka Augusto Corrieri) was an evening of theatrical conjuring. Featuring special guest performances by Tim Bromage and Tom Cassani It took place on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th June, 7.30pm @ The Rose Hill, Brighton. ‘One thing they don’t tell you at magic school is just how hard, how excruciatingly hard, it actually is to be a magician. It’s not just the endless children’s birthday parties, or the soul-crushing corporate gigs. It’s the fact that when you step on stage, everyone in the theatre knows that what you’re doing isn’t real, it’s a trick, everything you do is fake. You’re a fake, you’re a phoney. You’re not a real magician… That’s what people think… and they’re right.’ With support from...
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This paper examines wider issues of disenchantment in conventional magic performance practice, ultim...
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Argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive thesis that theatrical magic (that is, t...
This text presents a semi-fictional interview between a theatre artist (Augusto Corrieri), a magicia...
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This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
Many Magics is an ‘informance’ that blurs the distinct between true biography and invented persona. ...
Technologies of illusion are technologies used to evoke an emotional response in an audience by prod...
Dr Ian Saville is one of the very few comedy acts at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, who has ...
The performance piece Fairy Goblet of Eden Hall appeared in the Annemann's Jinx in 1941, it describe...
Magicians use deception to create effects that allow us to experience the impossible. More recently,...
The three witches who initiate William Shakespeare\u27s (1564 - 1616) Macbeth (1606) are the play\u2...
The Great God Pan (Raven, 1974) is a performance magic piece aimed at transporting the imagination o...
This paper examines wider issues of disenchantment in conventional magic performance practice, ultim...
Magic is about deception, it is also about lying. As Eugene Burger states; Magic is an art form tha...
Argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive thesis that theatrical magic (that is, t...
This text presents a semi-fictional interview between a theatre artist (Augusto Corrieri), a magicia...
This paper argues that through the theatrical application of defamiliarization (ostranenie) the perf...
Bizarre magic is a form of performance magic that favours theatrical character, storytelling, overt ...
Magic has a long history in Blackpool, having hosted numerous professional magic shows, and today ho...
This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
Many Magics is an ‘informance’ that blurs the distinct between true biography and invented persona. ...
Technologies of illusion are technologies used to evoke an emotional response in an audience by prod...
Dr Ian Saville is one of the very few comedy acts at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, who has ...
The performance piece Fairy Goblet of Eden Hall appeared in the Annemann's Jinx in 1941, it describe...
Magicians use deception to create effects that allow us to experience the impossible. More recently,...
The three witches who initiate William Shakespeare\u27s (1564 - 1616) Macbeth (1606) are the play\u2...
The Great God Pan (Raven, 1974) is a performance magic piece aimed at transporting the imagination o...
This paper examines wider issues of disenchantment in conventional magic performance practice, ultim...