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Overview
Credits
Reviews and audience feedback
Future plans
Show History
The team
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a playful meditation on magic |
An offbeat comedy in the form of a magic show. Mixing vaudeville with a fascination for the psychology of the magic trick, patter… investigates the mechanics of the magic show and the dark relationship between the magician and his assistant.
Developed at BAC
Devised by the company
Performers
Peter Arnold
Melanie Wilson
Director
Emma Benson
Set and props designer
Peter Arnold
Sound designer
Melanie Wilson
Lighting designer
Mark Dymock
Production managers
Richard Couldrey
Chris Umney
Stage manager
Roland Smith
An utter delight from start to finish.
Herald
An entertaining hybrid of performance art, magic show,
comedy and theatre… really funny.
Time Out
From Pythonesque stupidity to inspired psychological nonsense…patter
impress with their rich comic imagination
The Scotsman
Visually rich… very funny and expertly produced,
the future looks bright for this talented company.
Edinburgh Guide
Refreshingly refreshing. Restored my faith in new theatre.
D. Beames, audience member
This show is available for touring. For more information please email kate@fueltheatre.com
2004
February/March: British Council tour to Merlin Theatre, Budapest, and the
Makedonski Narodni Teatar, Skopje, Macedonia
2003
August: 2 performances at Underbelly, Edinburgh, as part of the British Council
Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe
April: national tour of 5 UK venues as part of the This Way Up ACE funded
touring programme
March: 3 week run, BAC
2002
Scratch performances in BAC’s OctoberFest
April: 3 performances in The Lion Roars at BAC
January: scratch performances at the Lion & Unicorn, Kentish Town
For details of patter... see biog page
Richard Couldrey Production Manager
Since training in Engineering at Nottingham University and Washington University
USA, Richard has worked in all aspects of technical theatre, dance and the
event industry around London aswell as touring extensively around the UK.
Richard has worked as production manager for Hoipolloi (UK, Philippines &
USA) the Almeida Theatre, Bedlam Dance Company, The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Fringe, Word of Mouth Theatre Co., The Tell Tale Hearts, Your Imagination
and the British Council including their season of new writing in the Philippines
Sept 2001.
Mark Dymock Lighting Designer
Past credits include: Breezeblock Park, Liverpool Playhouse; Macbeth, Nuffield
Theatre; 21st anniversary production of Educating Rita, Liverpool Playhouse;
Beauty Sleeps, Young Vic; When Harry met Barry, The Gatehouse; The Portrait
of Dorian Gray, Vienna’s English Theatre; The Woman Who Cooked her Husband,
Queen’s Theatre; The Life of Galileo, BAC; The Club, Old Red Lion; Incarcerator,
The White Bear and BAC; The Club, Old Red Lion; The Wedding, Love & Other
Fairytales; Stranded, Sisters and Others; Seagulls and Princess Sharon for
Scarlet Theatre.
