For more information, please see our When I got to the stage and took the bank note out of the envelope, Derren, the coin spin made a completely different sound depending which side it landed on. If you can, get to a venue and grab some seats, the trip will be worth every mile of your hard earned fuel. Derren has well and truly earned himself a fan. Well, as they were leaving the stage DB said he had to "check" on them. The numbers the man was writing were much darker, like a pen with fresh ink. He really is the ultimate storyteller, which by now we accept is all part of the routine, if indeed you can call it that. As I sat there looking at Derren and trying to gauge the audience reaction, I wondered how I was going to describe him to you. The first thing we need to do is eliminate what DB wants us to believe. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatres Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. Then nearabouts the end of the show, Derren popped up a clip of him helping the bloke he called up on stage to put the card . This is simply not true. This review refers to the October 2021 touring production of Derren Browns Showman. Derren Brown: Showman is at Bristol Hippodrome On May 24-28 at 7.30pm, with a 2.30pm matinee on May 28. You must log in or register to reply here. Could he have the stage area duplicated back stage? After moving his family into his childhood home, a man's investigation into a local factory accident connected to his father unveils dark family secrets. Again, this is completely spoiler free. Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Derren told me in our telephone interview ahead of . I correctly guessed them all once i realised this. This is similar to my experience, I thought I saw a shadow run across the stage and heard a chair clatter, my partner said she heard the chair being dragged but didn't see the shadow. I got put under by him and it was a marvelous experience. Oh dear sorry I meant card in the box, got it mixed up lol. On the left hand side we have DB and the card person, on the right we have the watcher. DERREN BROWN is bringing his current show SHOWMAN to the Apollo Theatre. Being up on stage, I noticed that the back of the chair that the hypnotised guy was sitting on was hella thick, so I am pretty convinced that a stagehand was indicating to the hypnotised guy how the coin landed through pulses in the back of the chair. The live footage then displays where he has his sleeves down, and then moments after the footage goes off, he's back on stage with his sleeves up. To be honest, Im still not totally a believer. He relies completely on us to allow him to take us on the journey with him. The second curtain is the fire curtain. The explanation was his prodigious memory and the academic tricks he uses to retain information. Youll thank us for that. Meanwhile, the usher and those 3 audience members have disappeared, I assume through the stage door they were stood next to. They're waiting, watching the amazing chair trick to end act 1. I was sat on the far side of the show and it was the exit that the 4 people came out of during the interval. envelope on stage, there was nothing else in there (so forget dividers/flaps/duplicate notes or anything like that). Anyone got any theories? But during the goldfish trick he rolled up his sleeves while saying 'ignore any distractions' - at the end as he goes off stage that gospel choir comes on which is a pretty huge distraction. Or art. Derren Brown in Showman 2021/2022. Interestingly, the Frisbee landed with someone who had already been up on stage in act 1, I think for the first game of guessing the partners. You can pay a visit HERE if youd like to check. Third time round when he put the box up a good ten foot high and counted up, all the lot of us heard was "1.. 2.. 5.". And then remember that 90% of that audience booked tickets with a credit card. Warning if anyone is going to see Derren Brown Showman Live Tour then I advise you NOT to watch this video as it does contain spoilers for the show!! I noticed in particular that the clip is filmed at an angle where you can't see the front of the stage and so can't see the audience or if the curtain is down. The card didnt get used in the show I saw. Its definitely one of those shows where you need to start a WhatsApp group with fellow audience members so you can share all your how on earth did he do that? messages. Think about when the person who puts the card in the box is selected from the audience, compared to when that trick actually takes place, and why Derren had to set it up like that. However, you can trust that I will always be honest and truthful on A Brummie Home and Abroad, and being an invited guest will not influence my opinion in any way. Which basically means that he plays tricks of the mind and manipulates the audience into seeing and thinking what he wants them to see and think. Apparently he got someone to pick a book at random from a library and then a page, and then a paragraph, and then Derren read it word for word. Author Andy Nyman, Derren Brown . Because as far as the audience are concerned, their segment of the show is finished. . There's also a possibility that the card never went into the card box in the first place, and DB used sleight of hand to make it appear the card had gone in. Feel free to Ama about the experience and I'll try answer best I can from what Derren has let me remember. I know it sounds really complicated and techy, but standing about a foot above the glass looking directly downwards, an awkwardly prolonged rattling of the dice is exactly what I witnessed. I get you, but there was a second person not chosen at the same time. We are led to believe by DB that just like the first 2 times, it was the person with their hand on the box who has done this. From March 8 to October 29, 2022, Derren Brown, the ever-popular multi-award winning master of mind control and illusion, will be taking SHOWMAN back on the road for . First of all, you absolutely dont want to give anything away spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SHOWMAN. Loving all these explanations - the weirdest bit for me is that me and my friend had slightly different experiences. I have no inside knowledge so my theory is completely based on what I saw last night. Brown manages to achieve a sense of connectivity throughout the audience as he opens the show discussing "how the thing that makes us feel most alone, are the things that bring us together most,". Be prepared to laugh, a lot, and maybe cry too. He just seriously impressed me especially as a complete and utter skeptic of some of the things he did, I couldn't of being more impressed. Hope you enjoyed it as well as I did. When he guessed the numbers, Derren was doing his best to direct him but he got loads wrong so just moved straight to the reveal, so this makes sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect. Derren just glossed over it at the time saying some of you will have seen what happened but no one did. I also (and this may be my imagination, it was loud up there!) Totally brilliant, mind completely blown. He paints vivd pictures with his words, and its those images that stick, perhaps to be recalled later. Tickets are available at www.atgtickets.com. I also noticed that on my finally throw, it seemed to roll around in the glass a LOT longer than the previous times I had rolled it. I was sitting in row 3 and could see everything during the two blackouts. Just got back from the Edinburgh show and was going to ask the same thing. The multi-award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, is back, launching his first brand new theatre show in six years: Showman. And our automatic thought is that this MUST have been filmed during the act 2 segment of the show because that is the only time all three of them were on stage together in those positions. I was hoping that you would tell me how he managed to guess UFO and whip in 20 questions. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He then moves onto the chair balancing trick, while the other 3 are waiting with an usher at the bottom of the stairs. I've read about the table which can effect the dice roll but what about the coin tosses ? I'm talking about the big reveal right at the very end! The hand thing didnt work, I have a hypnosis book called "reality is plastic" which teaches a VERY similar routine for the hands sticking together and forgetting your name, and the number 7.However, when the light thing happened, and they showed the video afterwards, I thought that there was no way ANYONE other than the guy (or girl) on stage would be affected. So how did the signed card get into the box? Press J to jump to the feed. Whether you are a believer or not, however you view what Derren so skilfully does, what is unarguable is that he really is the ultimate showman. In my show lots of people put their hands up saying they saw it? It can only have been a stooge, with the filming done in the interval or in advance. But I'm stoked to hear how exciting you found it being on stage. - don't know. We see DB hypnotise the playing card person twice, and they unconsciously put the playing card in the box themselves, but have no recollection of doing so. As those 3 people leave the stage, DB says "please will you 3 wait at the bottom of the stairs, we just need to check you are all OK following the hypnosis". And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. He then introduced us to people who have clearly influenced him. All theatres have them,. 227 comments Add a Comment And if youd like to read our interview with Derren, and take a look back at some of his highlights, go to our special feature HERE. Spoiler-free review of Derren Brown Showman tour as it opens at the Sunderland Empire. Now I still often blame myself - why am I so suggestible? Its a trick, its always a trick with Derren, To rule out the potential that he hypnotised the audience, someone needs to watch the show again and look at the second hand on their watch when Derren counts 1,2 and then see if it magically moves 15 seconds, or if it simply carries on as normal. The New Theatre is something very special with its ornate decoration and beautifully crafted interiors. Which in reality is true, accepting that every performance is different. Just from knowing a little more about what happens to the person on stage. Care to point me in the right direction regarding the thumb tip? At the time I just assumed so they could move the chair and person and put them back at the end of the interval. To us the signatures will look the same. Hope that makes sense, Saw it last night, for us it was a different person doing the chair and the card trick (the card trick person was one who was chosen previously though). I would say to ask yourself which is the even remotely plausable explanation between those two and work it from there.That's the problem with this show, Derren makes it so impossible, it can only be done one way, and you don't have to be a magician to work it out. Before he was known at all, I saw him perform close-up magic to a handful of people, me being one of them. Went to see it in Birmingham in October. There are flashes of red light and a partial blackout, I would estimate for between 3 and 5 seconds, no more. But I won't post public Spoilers. I saw him come back down. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. It worked on me though, I didn't see a thing. Even already seeing it months before and knowing what to look for, I don't know how it's done other than an "off screen" routine and if so then I'm even happy with that to be honest ha. Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. Whilst all of that is happening, the second person on stage, the "watcher" is standing very still and is staring at the box. Then, as his career progressed, I was lucky to catch him at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. Main photo: Mark Douet. Then, end of act 1, big black-out temporarily, curtain comes down. The cameraman gets a good look at this, we can all see it. What applied then, still applies now how the hell he does what he does, I have no idea, other than to say the skill and intensity of what he does both with, and to an audience is incredible. Now, the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that this review of Derren Brown Showman, hasnt even begun to mention the content of the show, the fact is I simply cant. I was on stage the longest and had the best opportunity to observe the secret of the trick, but I was hypnotised and couldn't remember. As part of a whopping 155-venue world tour, SHOWMAN will be performing seven shows a week between December 2022 and March 2023. It may be a one-man show, but we all leave feeling like we have been a part of a collective experience. If you put the two cards next to each other there will be small discrepancies, but that's irrelevant. 3rd trick, he walks over and puts it in the suspended box. I really don't want the experience of that show to be ruined for anyone. I honestly don't know how the hell he did it other than hypnosis. So that leads us to only one conclusion, we have all missed/forgot 20 seconds of the show. He sits her down at the same table, and makes her walk across to the hanging box to place the playing card inside. Then when the video of what happened played at the end of the show, it was a good 10-15 secs long, giving Derren the time to make the other guy put the card in the box, wave his hand in front of the lady who was the 'box watcher' and do a little dance in front of the camera. Derren talks about the themes of his new show, and how it is constantly evolving.Derren Brown's SHOWMAN is out on a mega tour of the UK & Ireland until Oct 2. Its clear he too has been scarred by the effects of the pandemic, as much as we all have. He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. Where did you write it and where did it go? The playing card (now signed) has moved from the card box to the wooden box on the stand. Sentimental Objects With Derren Brown! Press J to jump to the feed. Running time 2hrs 40mins. At this point in the show, the participant is blindfolded. The box wasnt suspended for the first trick. 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