I went last night. My previous encounters were very different to this experience, and believe me, SHOWMAN is one hell of an experience. Then, end of act 1, big black-out temporarily, curtain comes down. What happened with the card that you wrote on? I just wondered if he'd given a subtle clue. 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 . Not once did he make anyone feel uncomfortable or embarrassed, and in an age where we all seem to revel in that sort of behaviour, it was a joy to watch. The first thing we need to do is eliminate what DB wants us to believe. A lovely li, In Dublins fair city rounding off a week of, I may have been a little obsessed with the colourf, "I can never travel without my diary, one should a, Yes, its touristy. As Channel 4 . You can also see when Derren does the hand waving in front of the box watcher, he isnt looking at them directly in the eyes because its spliced together. The video was pre-recorded during the intermission, behind the heavy curtain. JavaScript is disabled. After all, its a performance that relies on intrigue. People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. Would be very interested to hear your theory too. I was sat in the stalls by the stage left exit a few nights ago. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It is then quickly edited with the 3rd attempt, cut split screen to include the box watcher by Derrens team off stage. But. Im a sceptic, always looking for those moments of distraction or sleight-of-hand. And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. 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. Delighted to hear that other people had the same experience unless of course we were just in the majority that were under his spell! 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. This person, who was also a woman last night, is then instructed to stand in a specific place on stage to guard the box. 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 was in London over the weekend with my husband Ruud Evers, to tick a long overdue 'to-do' off my list. Mega spoilers here.Coin trick:I noticed that there was a tiny micro camera attached to the edge of the table pointing horizontally across it. My theory, and it may very well be wrong, is similar to yours where I think that part of it was filmed during the interval, specifically where the person put the card in the box, but I dont believe the box watcher was there for this part. The new person was there and the box was swinging in the video, which gave it the credibility to suggest it happened when we saw it, but my thoughts are that it was two separate videos filmed at two different times then edited. So, in a world where we are all trying to catch up with the time weve lost, grab hold of those we have missed, and re-evaluate what is really important to us, Derren doesnt just perform some amazing how the hell does he do that moments. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. I have no inside knowledge so my theory is completely based on what I saw last night. 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. Cardiff, CF10 2HE 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. I got put under by him and it was a marvelous experience. He saw the whole thing, Derren getting the chair, the guy standing on it, putting card in etc etc. His experience of the last couple of years has been parallel to all of us, and it was this shared bond which held the theme of the show. Imagine what would happen if anyone could get on stage during the interval. Just got back from the Edinburgh show and was going to ask the same thing. 13 May 2022. DB chooses 4 of these people to go on stage, probably the most suggestible ones. I always thought I was someone who was quite hard to hypnotise so was utterly shocked to find that I might have been. The man is a fecking genius innit. If you dont have a ticket, its unlikely youll get there as, at this point, there isnt one single seat left for the rest of the week. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. . At this point in the show, the participant is blindfolded. I have a Derren Question. Who said you, The smell of old books hits you as soon as you str, Dublin. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre,. It was filmed in the 1st blackout of the 1st card trick :), Saw the show in Liverpool and Im a mentalist myself, really enjoyed it and I too noticed a couple of things. Is that the personalized coin wrapped in string inside a box trick that he did for Enigma? 1st trick, he reaches over the desk. Or coffee? His Majesty's Theatre British illusionist wows audience with his most personal show to date. The New Theatre is something very special with its ornate decoration and beautifully crafted interiors. So thought he deserved a as spoiler free wirte up as I could. Thinking about it in hindsight, my guess is that one edge of the coins would have been shaved so that, looking through the camera, one could tell whether the coin was heads up or heads down once it landed. Press J to jump to the feed. Loving all these explanations - the weirdest bit for me is that me and my friend had slightly different experiences. The most sensible solution is that it's a different card. He froze the man in place on the chair and then the curtain came down. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. Press J to jump to the feed. Derren openly admits he's a "fake" - it's all just magic tricks, after all. I kinda want to go again and film it to see if its real. I really don't want the experience of that show to be ruined for anyone. Yeah my guess is. I was the participant for one of the shows for this trick and when Derren handed me the cardboard, it was completely blank. Nobody has seen this, probably only a very small number of the audience will have actually remembered they were still there. He has the utmost respect for his audience, delighting in the things he is able to extract and share from the willing volunteers head, but also ever mindful of the powerful affect he has on each and every one of us. Brown effortlessly weaves illusions into a personal and tender narrative. Derren doesnt claim to possess any supernatural powers and his acts are often designed to expose the methods of those who do. Anyone got any theories? Just saw Derren Brown this week and the guy they got on stage obviously not a stooge successfully predicted every coin toss and Dice roll ?? At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. Or maybe were all under some kind of mass hypnotic spell. by Stephi Wild Jul. Along the way it discloses the secrets of some of Derrens spectacular tricks of the mind. Where did you write it and where did it go? He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. DERREN BROWN RETURNS TO THE WEST END STAGE! When I got to the stage and took the bank note out of the envelope, Derren asked I had checked the serial number on my way up as apparently a lot of people do, and we had a giggle. 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. So now they have two pieces of footage. Derren has well and truly earned himself a fan. But then I believe that all they actually did during the missing 15 seconds was knock the box so that it would swing, I think the camera angle did two things to firstly, as you mentioned, block the audience so you couldnt see whether the curtain was up or down, but also secondly to ensure that the person watching the box and the person putting the card in the box dont overlap. But wait! At one point he makes reference to the greatest showman, P T Barnum, yes, the man who inspired the film. And thats what Derren does best. It wasn't filmed in the interval though. What you'll see in Derren Brown's first new show in six years is being kept secret by both Brown and his faithful audiences, but Derren has said: "All I can reveal is that the show will . His team backstage are putting together a split screen video using the two pieces of footage. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. So this just leaves person 3 (our playing card person) with DB and his team back stage. It may be a one-man show, but we all leave feeling like we have been a part of a collective experience. Underground | Derren Brown STAGE & SCREEN 2017-2018, UK Tour UNDERGROUND The multi-award winning master of mind control and psychological illusion fused together a collection of his favourite work to create UNDERGROUND - a jaw-dropping experience of magical genius. 3rd trick, he walks over and puts it in the suspended box. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. video filmed in interval? He's a mind reader so he could find out and I would face legal consequences. Yes, its expensive. And she's the one who wanted to go see him in the first place. So it couldnt have been recorded then, Nobody saw what allegedly happened. Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. I heard 1, 2, the lights went off and then I clearly heard someone running and saw someone dart across the stage in the blackness, took no more than a few seconds, then went to 5. Care to point me in the right direction regarding the thumb tip? It is DERREN BROWN SHOWMAN, but actually you can add into that mix and the AUDIENCE. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. 18/03/2022 00:21. 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. He is a storyteller who can keep 1200 people hanging onto what he says and does. So he's relying on over 200 different people (the card trick people) not to say anything about how they filmed it in the interval. Hes completely in tune with the human psyche knowing what makes us tick, function and even vulnerable. His ease on stage is second to none, and the way he reacts with the audience and volunteers is masterful. He didn't get me to put on the blindfold until after he gave me the card, and they filmed me writing the whole time (I think, lol) but Derren did instruct me to keep adding more numbers at the top, bottom etc until he was satisfied. In this brand new podcast series, Derren Brown explores the many worries and pressures we all experience in modern life and how we can find meaningful ways to manage them better. The finale, too, was a very clever use of camera trickery. A look back at Derren Brown's most inexplicable tricks and stunts. Derren Brown: Showman is at Bristol Hippodrome On May 24-28 at 7.30pm, with a 2.30pm matinee on May 28. W. 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. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatre's Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. Incidentally, that isnt a spoiler but a genuine part of the experience we should all take away, whether you get to see this tour or not. First of all, you absolutely don't want to give anything away - spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. Saw you still sitting in your chair at the end and you looked pretty perplexed! (Ad: Event Invite*) Its tricky to talk about the latest Derren Brown show without giving away any spoilers. When we showed the serial number on the big screen, it was absolutely the serial number of the note I last held onto. My guess is that it was an e-ink display and a stagehand wirelessly transmitted the numbers onto the board after my serial number had been shown on the big screen. Cookie Notice Honestly felt like everything I knew in life was shattered. Theres also a set or pictures on the wall, particularly one of Laurel and Hardy when they were in town back in the day. I'm guessing none of this was half as obvious on the big screen.Serial number trick:I can 100% confirm that the bank note I brought on stage was the bank note that we used. Derren just glossed over it at the time saying some of you will have seen what happened but no one did. This is all being filmed from a very carefully positioned camera at the side of the stage, from the same position where they filmed the part described above during the interval. I was on stage as the die roller/coin flipper/bank note guy. He said that twice. DB requires the same person (from the forgotten number 7 game) back on stage. He shared his own personal tough times of loss and heartache, in the hope we can take something away and use it in our own lives. This makes sense to me. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Hope you enjoyed it as well as I did. One of DB's team comes on and quickly puts the card in the box, or they have an exact replica pre-prepared box back stage with the duplicate signed card in it, and the switch is made. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. It can only have been a stooge, with the filming done in the interval or in advance. - don't know. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINERS SPOILERS. There are flashes of red light and a partial blackout, I would estimate for between 3 and 5 seconds, no more. We dont know whats going to happen, how events are likely to unfold, and whether Derren will be feeling it on the night youre there. So does Derren feel we are suckers as Barnum would happily say? Firstly; during the interval - I was at the show in Glasgow on Thursday night. 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. They're waiting, watching the amazing chair trick to end act 1. 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. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatres Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. Thanks! The explanation was his prodigious memory and the academic tricks he uses to retain information. But some of the things aren't fake in the way of being straight up lies. It was a woman last night, but was probably a man on other nights. I've worked out how about 3/4 of the tricks are done (i think!). The second part with the box watcher is filmed when we see him on stage and the camera crew are very clever at splitting two screens to make it look like one, just like when he 'predicted' the lottery, the same idea is used. 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. On the left hand side we have DB and the card person, on the right we have the watcher. This would fall apart immediately if someone could testify that either of the two audience members were sitting in the audience as it happened. Its that setting which is so well suited to seeing Derren live, particularly in Showman. But a good demonstration of why you shouldn't be taken in by Mystics and Mediums. *Why is this post marked AD? He showed the video at the end of the trick and we all was like, "Nah, that didn't happen." Its clear he too has been scarred by the effects of the pandemic, as much as we all have. The stage curtains including a large heavy safety curtain come down obscuring the view of the stage. Derren walks over to the flip chart once after all the numbers are up on the board and pockets it.As its folded up so small it is easy to palm and conceal. But then, strangely, a second curtain came down, which I immediately thought must be to hide the first curtain from us in case there was movement that affected the curtain. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Derren Brown - Showman will take place at the Gaiety, Dublin from April 12-16, the Grand Opera House, Belfast from April 19-23 and the Millennium Forum, Derry from April 26-30. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I laughed along to the person the first and second time, but the 3rd time he got about 70% of the audience, me included. We never see footage of that. Derren channels the experiences of those in attendance - past, present and future - into a mesmerising, and downright poignant, couple of hours. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre, Glasgow, SHOWMAN will tour the UK and Ireland until 29 October 2022. But believers will believe, and it is the willing participants which will make every single show a different experience. I received complimentary tickets to this event. 2nd trick, he walks across and puts it in on the floor. The usher takes them back stage. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Derren takes us on a personal journey - to the scene of a childhood humiliation, to lonely evenings on tour, to being paralysed by shyness at a dinner party, to navigating middle age and to finding love. Fresh from a sold out tour of the UK and Ireland, his new, interactive show, has received the most off-the-chart reviews of his career. At least half an hour passes between when DB finishes that part of the show, until when we see the final video at the very end. My friend and the stranger on the other side of me didnt see the running or hear it at all, they thought I was winding them up! I'm pretty sure it was filmed during the 1st blackout of the card trick where he told the card trick audience member that they reached across the table and put a card in the box. The usher held the envelope open for me as I inserted it, and when I opened the envelope on stage, there was nothing else in there (so forget dividers/flaps/duplicate notes or anything like that). 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. 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