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. 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. In our show tonight he "didn't press hard enough" too and had a light "5" on there. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. I may have set my expectations too high and in some ways the show was more predictable than I had anticipated. info@southwaleslife.com, Derren Brown: Showman Our Spoiler-Free Opening Night Review, Matthew Bournes Nutcracker! Excellent show would recommend everyone sees it! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. DB then hypnotises her/him in exactly the same was as we see in act 2. He then lines them up, and there is a funny segment where they can't remember the number 7. 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. He paints vivd pictures with his words, and its those images that stick, perhaps to be recalled later. Yes, its expensive. I was in London over the weekend with my husband Ruud Evers, to tick a long overdue 'to-do' off my list. To us the signatures will look the same. But a good demonstration of why you shouldn't be taken in by Mystics and Mediums. We need to look back at her movements from the moment she was chosen to go on stage. envelope on stage, there was nothing else in there (so forget dividers/flaps/duplicate notes or anything like that). I noticed the guy who came back later to be used again appeared near the end of the interval. Hell of a show though, and well worth seeing. It doesn't really matter which of these methods they used, the result is the same - there's a box on stage with the signed card in it. Youll thank us for that. Again, I stopped listening shortly afterwards, not because the subject matter wasn't itneresting but because I just wanted to watch the show without some loudmouth fanboy getting in the way! Then for the big moment. All those little head shakes and nods he does -- are they just tics or are they a crucial part of his techniques? I think they then spliced the two videos together during the period between the trick and the video reveal. As part of a whopping 155-venue world tour, SHOWMAN will be performing seven shows a week between December 2022 and March 2023. I'll inbox you conclusion we came too, as I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. My previous encounters were very different to this experience, and believe me, SHOWMAN is one hell of an experience. 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". Now I still often blame myself - why am I so suggestible? Our Opening Night Review, Cludeo at the New Theatre Cardiff Our Opening Night Review, We Meet the Real Copper Topp Ahead of RuPauls Drag Race UK Tour, Celebrate the Legendary Max Boyce at His 50th Anniversary Concerts, Fresh Sounds and Powerful Stories Spring at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Wolf A New BBC One Prime Time Thriller Rooted in Wales, Everybodys Talking About Jamie At The WMC All Week, Willow Returns and Filmed in Wales Check Out the Nine Locations, Bronwen Lewis More From The Living Room. 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. I received complimentary tickets to this event. I honestly don't know how the hell he did it other than hypnosis. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre, Glasgow, SHOWMAN will tour the UK and Ireland until 29 October 2022. 1. He wants us to believe, in showing that video, that each and every one of us in that theatre missed/forgot 15-20 seconds of the show. Derren has created a new show that does not feel like any of his previous shows (based upon what we have seen on DVD). I'm not going to straight up tell you how it's done, but I'll give you some help trying to work it out. They then brought the same person back on stage for the trick (where he said in my show that this is something he doesnt normally do, but would have to do to make the whole thing work) and brought up somebody new from the audience to then give the video credibility that it wasnt filmed earlier in the show. How then did lots of people in the crowd see it happen in the moment? And that it isn't difficult to get information about people once you have their name, address, credit card details and whatnot. Oooh I never considered that! He then chooses a second person (who's hands also stuck earlier) with the Frisbee. Did you go on stage during the interval at all? He then takes her back stage, brings her out of hypnosis, and says yeah you're fine too and an usher escorts her back to the theatre. That part finishes, and DB retains 1 of the 4 people on stage to do the balancing chair trick to end act 1. I'm fairly sure our guy got an interval. I just wondered if he'd given a subtle clue. You really could sit there all night and listen to him. But I also need to tell you, he is so damn funny. 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. I saw that show too and was baffled at the end. So, where do they go? This review refers to the October 2021 touring production of Derren Browns Showman. A jaw-dropping, mind-boggling experience. I want to know how he knew personal histories, like "you're thinking about dying your hair". Derren Brown: Showman - Our Spoiler-Free Opening Night Review By South Wales Life - 30 March 2022 Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. In the card trick, all I heard was 1-2-5. I saw your show in Hull too! I was the box watcher in Belfast. Glasgow King's Theatre 4 - 12 March 2022 Edinburgh Playhouse 3 - 7 May 2022 Aberdeen I always thought I was someone who was quite hard to hypnotise so was utterly shocked to find that I might have been. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. But that's another story. People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. If you want to know my idea just drop me a message. Sentimental Objects With Derren Brown! Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. Maybe I should go again and secretly film when I get backstage. 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! 2nd trick, he walks across and puts it in on the floor. 1. On the left hand side we have DB and the card person, on the right we have the watcher. Please see this post I did a while ago for a detailed explanation. 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. (Showman: Light Spoilers) Laura Masters 597 subscribers Subscribe 441 views 5 months ago On 28th July 2022, I saw Derren Brown perform. It was very confusing but extremely well done , When Derren asked our audience how many people saw her put the card in the box (when it was hanging from the ceiling), I looked around and couldnt see any hands up but he said quite a few hands were up. To be honest, Im still not totally a believer. I got brought up on stage for the objects bit, real bucket list moment - what an amazing show . There are flashes of red light and a partial blackout, I would estimate for between 3 and 5 seconds, no more. Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. 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. And she's the one who wanted to go see him in the first place. I wasn't brave enough to do this in front of Derren. Actually, he most certainly does not. Its clear he too has been scarred by the effects of the pandemic, as much as we all have. Spoiler alert Ultimately, he is a fantastic entertainer, and an expert in reading human behaviour and . And I have to say it's one of the best tricks he's done at a live stage show. It was a woman last night, but was probably a man on other nights. And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. After the four participants were taken off stage they were held at the base of the steps by an exit for a few minutes by an usher. 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. But some of the things aren't fake in the way of being straight up lies. It may even be a different box. I laughed along to the person the first and second time, but the 3rd time he got about 70% of the audience, me included. Brown effortlessly weaves illusions into a personal and tender narrative. Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating. Where did you write it and where did it go? Ive spent the whole day convinced that you must of been a stooge or something..but now I dont know what to think! My current manshape is a magician and he hates Derren with a passion and I watched Derren's magic show a few weeks ago with my man muttering and insulting Derren and also explaining how everything was done and, Most magicians I know or have spoken to -- no, scratch that --. Firstly, her hands locked in place. It may be a one-man show, but we all leave feeling like we have been a part of a collective experience. As far as we can all see, what we are watching is one video clip, with all three people on stage at the same time. Or maybe were all under some kind of mass hypnotic spell. Very strange this, why didn't they just return to their seats? Would love to hear your theory about how the final peice was done. They wouldn't have been aware of it, of course, being "under" Derren's spell.Dice trick:I held the dice and it felt a bit heavily than I felt it ought to be. 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 . For just over two hours this consummate professional has the audience in the palm of his hand. I really don't think this other theory would hold up to scrutiny but I did wonder if it was being broadcast live to the stage? 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. In A Book of Secrets, Derren Brown shows us that it is in thosemoments when we are faced with adversity that we can find lifes most lasting rewards. 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. They didnt appear again for a good 10 minutes. But I'm stoked to hear how exciting you found it being on stage. He really is the ultimate storyteller, which by now we accept is all part of the routine, if indeed you can call it that. went to see the show last night. I think this is probably right but he's doing what, over 200 shows on this tour? 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). Whilst all of that is happening, the second person on stage, the "watcher" is standing very still and is staring at the box. I've worked out how about 3/4 of the tricks are done (i think!). The "box watcher" wasnt there, but he knew exactly where they would be standing, so he could act as though there was a person there to wave at etc, then its an easy edit job to splice her/him in. The New Theatre is something very special with its ornate decoration and beautifully crafted interiors. The answer must be, because something has already happened with that person which means the big reveal needs them back on stage for act 2. Running time 2hrs 40mins. For more information, please see our At one point he makes reference to the greatest showman, P T Barnum, yes, the man who inspired the film. Showman is, at its heart, a show about how the. SYNOPSIS: Derren Brown, the multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion is back, bringing his critically acclaimed production Showman to the West End for the very first . 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. Derren channels the experiences of those in attendance - past, present and future - into a mesmerising, and downright poignant, couple of hours. 02, 2021. Would be very interested to hear your theory too. So how did the signed card get into the box? Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000 hes produced multiple series and specials, winning two Laurence Olivier Awards. I think thats enough hints. 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.". 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. All those little head shakes and nods he does -- are they just tics or are they a crucial part of his techniques? The hypnotised dude would have been given a pen that wouldn't mark the board. My theory: because it happened at a completely different time to when we are led to believe it happened. If you can, get to a venue and grab some seats, the trip will be worth every mile of your hard earned fuel. Yes, I've been to see it - it was fantastic - but why would you do something like this when one of the first things Derren asks at the beginning of the show is specifically not to talk about it, because it ruins the experience for other people? Follow The Man Himself: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerrenBrown/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DerrenBrown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derrenbrown/ Website: http://derrenbrown.co.uk/License code | CODE: LD-KE91OHRL5H4ID He often claims his impossible effects are merely achieved through \"\"magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship\"\". But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. 1 35 He didn't explain why it had to be her, but made a point of saying its not something he usually does. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. They're waiting, watching the amazing chair trick to end act 1. Please mark as spoiler or respond with PM. Derren once did a camera trick on TV where he predicted the lottery, using split screen editing. 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. Theres a way around this but its not that straight forward I dont think. 1st trick, he reaches over the desk. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Like saying to a man "you've recently thought about Konnie Huq"? THE FOLLOWING CONTAINERS SPOILERS. Any idea how the name for the teddy bear and the dad comments appear on the badge? Reading time: 2 mins Seen on: 10 May 2022 by Dawn Geddes. 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. Went to see Derren Brown's Showman yesterday. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. Noise. I have a Derren Question. He saw the whole thing, Derren getting the chair, the guy standing on it, putting card in etc etc. Be sure to subscribe and catch all the amazing moments of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection \u0026 showmanship! 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. 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. So the person who eventually got chosen was totally random and DB had no control over this. 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. Would love to hear your theory and any others, please inbox me as I am completely baffled by the finale and I need some form of answer to this confusion!! At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. Is there anybody who heard the full countdown? However. His ease on stage is second to none, and the way he reacts with the audience and volunteers is masterful. The Monkey King. I hope the bit you're referring to doesn't get cut out by the time I go. His one-man shows have received wide critical acclaim and more Olivier wins and nominations than any other in history! Yes of course the show has themes, script and direction, but given the obvious unpredictability of the audience it makes for a great, and challenging experience. As I said, were not going to include any spoilers here. Feel free to Ama about the experience and I'll try answer best I can from what Derren has let me remember. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. First of all, you absolutely don't want to give anything away - spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. He places the box on a stand which requires someone to stand on a chair to get to. Derren noticed it and tried to do a little thing scribbling with the pen to say its running out. It is DERREN BROWN SHOWMAN, but actually you can add into that mix and the AUDIENCE. I was hoping that you would tell me how he managed to guess UFO and whip in 20 questions. First rule of seeing a Derren Brown show is: you don't talk about what you saw in the Derren Brown show. So it couldnt have been recorded then, Nobody saw what allegedly happened. My theory: because 1 of these 3 people (the playing card person) was still needed by DB. I only figured out which bit was faked and a very good guess at who was because my partner said something to me when I asked her a question. (Ad: Event Invite*) Its tricky to talk about the latest Derren Brown show without giving away any spoilers. This would fall apart immediately if someone could testify that either of the two audience members were sitting in the audience as it happened. It was a life changing time in history which will live with us forever. Subscribe For More Derren Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialDerrenDerren Brown is a British mentalist, illusionist and author. He's a mind reader so he could find out and I would face legal consequences. Yeah my guess is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect. The big clue is why did he get the person from act 1 back for a different segment in act 2? Before we go any further, what did the audience think of the show? I like this theory. Like the OP, I performed a similar function at yesterday's matine performance. - no. The second being that the video played at theend was pre-recorded during the interval, but that theory has a fewissues that I won't get into here. This person, who was also a woman last night, is then instructed to stand in a specific place on stage to guard the box. What does the content of you e-reader say about you? The man is a fecking genius innit. Then, as his career progressed, I was lucky to catch him at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. We are implored not to give anything away before the curtain falls. 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. The sparse set and dim lighting are designed to give off an air of mystery. With . Privacy Policy. It wasn't filmed in the interval though. Mega spoilers here.Coin trick: Dice trick: Serial number trick: envelope on stage, there was nothing else in there (so forget dividers/flaps/duplicate notes or anything like that). DERREN BROWN is bringing his current show SHOWMAN to the Apollo Theatre. Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. I have no inside knowledge so my theory is completely based on what I saw last night. Just got back from the Edinburgh show and was going to ask the same thing. If it was possible to hypnotise an entire audience to forget parts of the show, he wouldn't need to go to the lengths he does to whittle down audience members to find the most suggestible people. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Starts 09/12/2022. Person number 1 (not our playing card person) is then checked very quickly by DB - all fine - and is then escorted back to the theatre by an usher. 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