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. The usher takes them back stage. Then for the big moment. He showed the video at the end of the trick and we all was like, "Nah, that didn't happen." . video filmed in interval? He'd memorised the info about them before the show. 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. He said that twice. It was a life changing time in history which will live with us forever. My partner who went with me wasn't affect by any of it. Like the OP, I performed a similar function at yesterday's matine performance. The Monkey King. Very strange this, why didn't they just return to their seats? The problem is that the wooden box wasnt suspendes until the 3rd trick. He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. Derren Brown: Showman is at Bristol Hippodrome On May 24-28 at 7.30pm, with a 2.30pm matinee on May 28. I was on stage as the die roller/coin flipper/bank note guy. The finale, too, was a very clever use of camera trickery. 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!! This makes sense to me. But I won't say publicly. I understand the principles behind it but it's done so well that no matter how hard you look, you're still impressed. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Derren openly admits he's a "fake" - it's all just magic tricks, after all. I've read about the table which can effect the dice roll but what about the coin tosses ? So does Derren feel we are suckers as Barnum would happily say? 02922-362359 It wasn't untill I talked to my partner I clicked on to what I think has happened. 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. He is a naturally engaging performer than the audience are willing to interact and empathise with. 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 . He sits her down at the same table, and makes her walk across to the hanging box to place the playing card inside. I noticed the guy who came back later to be used again appeared near the end of the interval. He is engaging and funny and not once do you feel he is wrestling to get to his final goals. Swansea University Bay Campus, Swansea University Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Crymlyn Burrows, Skewen, Swansea, Taibach Community Library, Taibach Community Library, Commercial Road, Taibach, Port Talbot, New Theatre, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3LN, Savoy Theatre, The Savoy Theatre, Church Street, Monmouth NP25 3BU, Memo Arts Centre, Memo Arts Centre, Gladstone Road, Barry, The Blake Theatre, Almshouse Street, Monmouth NP25 3XP, Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE, Clwb Ifor Bach, 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff CF10 1BR, International House, 10 Churchill Way 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. 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 time. KindEnvironment5098 5 mo. I always love the tv specials he does but Ive never seen him live! In my show lots of people put their hands up saying they saw it? But actually, thats when they stood on the chair to put it in the swinging box which was lowered and then raised again before the lights came back up. So during the blackout, one of two things happens. 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. 1st trick, he reaches over the desk. Derren Brown: Showman review - a performance that will blow your mind Apollo theatre, London The veteran illusionist outdoes himself with an evening of bewildering trickery that holds a. I hope the bit you're referring to doesn't get cut out by the time I go. 1. But some of the things aren't fake in the way of being straight up lies. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINERS SPOILERS. It may be a one-man show, but we all leave feeling like we have been a part of a collective experience. went to see the show last night. You're almost right. Cardiff, CF10 2HE I get you, but there was a second person not chosen at the same time. Another small but important point, DB actually re-positioned her and made a point to ask her to just move a small fraction to the left and guided her into a slightly new position. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. For almost 20 years I have been a huge fan of Derren | 10 comments on LinkedIn Is that the personalized coin wrapped in string inside a box trick that he did for Enigma? He then does a dance next to the hanging box, and the woman returns to her seat. I watched carefully, the usher was not checking to see if these 3 people were OK after hypnosis. We never see footage of that. As part of a whopping 155-venue world tour, SHOWMAN will be performing seven shows a week between December 2022 and March 2023. And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. But I also need to tell you, he is so damn funny. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did pal. 227 comments Add a Comment Convinced a few friends to go to the last show in Dublin on Saturday and they left completely bamboozled by the whole thing and I loved watching them trying to piece it all together. Actually, he most certainly does not. As to how the numbers are guessed Im not sure, Hi! Please see this post I did a while ago for a detailed explanation. The pre-written numbers were written with a pen where the ink was running out in the other night's show. It wasn't filmed in the interval though. Imagine what would happen if anyone could get on stage during the interval. I always thought I was someone who was quite hard to hypnotise so was utterly shocked to find that I might have been. You can pay a visit HERE if youd like to check. I also (and this may be my imagination, it was loud up there!) But now I assume it's so they could film that 30s clip. Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating. But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. 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. Same for person 2. He saw the whole thing, Derren getting the chair, the guy standing on it, putting card in etc etc. Privacy Policy. 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. by Stephi Wild Jul. Did he guess your correctly and was specific? For tickets, go to https://derrenbrown.co.uk/Welcome to the official Derren Brown YouTube channel. Giving them time to film the shot for the trick. He's a mind reader so he could find out and I would face legal consequences. DERREN BROWN RETURNS TO THE WEST END STAGE! This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Meanwhile, the usher and those 3 audience members have disappeared, I assume through the stage door they were stood next to. But a good demonstration of why you shouldn't be taken in by Mystics and Mediums. Well, as they were leaving the stage DB said he had to "check" on them. This makes sense on the card. Following SHOWMAN's world premiere last autumn which wowed audiences up and down the country, Derren Brown is back on stage with his biggest ever live tour! I honestly don't know how the hell he did it other than hypnosis. I think this is probably right but he's doing what, over 200 shows on this tour? 1. Add into that a slick production, simple but effective, and you have a good old fashioned, not to be missed, mind-blowing night at the theatre. There's a coup in the closing moments so mindblowing, so laser-guided, to undermine the hold-out scepticism of an unbeliever like me, that I ended up feeling he had surpassed even himself. Now I still often blame myself - why am I so suggestible? 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 --. Then, end of act 1, big black-out temporarily, curtain comes down. Im guessing this was him using his powers of suggestion to the audience that some people saw something that you did not. 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). 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! Opening 4 March at King's Theatre,. - no. You are using an out of date browser. Whilst all of that is happening, the second person on stage, the "watcher" is standing very still and is staring at the box. As far as she is concerned, she has received the exact same checking over treatment as the other 2 people. Tickets are available at www.atgtickets.com. The playing card (now signed) has moved from the card box to the wooden box on the stand. 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.". I held my bank note above my head from the dress circle, and on my way to the stage I took a sneaky glance at the serial number because I had an inkling that it would be relevant later. Before we go any further, what did the audience think of the show? So therefore, what we see in that video at the end DID happen. Dont know why youre being downvoted, this is 100% right. For more information, please see our 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 ?? I have a Derren Question. This person, who was also a woman last night, is then instructed to stand in a specific place on stage to guard the box. So the person who eventually got chosen was totally random and DB had no control over this. Dont expect a great big flashy, glitzy set, this is Derren Brown not David Copperfield. Before he was known at all, I saw him perform close-up magic to a handful of people, me being one of them. As its one of the main acts of the show. Totally brilliant, mind completely blown. 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. 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. But it seems impossible, and nobody in the audience has seen it happen. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. 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. Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. First of all, you absolutely don't want to give anything away - spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. DERREN BROWN is bringing his current show SHOWMAN to the Apollo Theatre. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. You must log in or register to reply here. The explanation was his prodigious memory and the academic tricks he uses to retain information. How then did lots of people in the crowd see it happen in the moment? And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatre's Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. A jaw-dropping, mind-boggling experience. So then for the trick. 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. At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. I had to check with Pa Lee my plus one for the evening whether my mind was playing tricks on me. Went to see Derren Brown's Showman yesterday. 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. 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. I feel like he might have skipped 3-4 and filmed the video during the interval. Running time 2hrs 40mins. 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. The second curtain is the fire curtain. Would be very interested to hear your theory too. Just from knowing a little more about what happens to the person on stage. But such is the talent of Brown that even I was baffled at times by what I had witnessed. 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. If anyone wants to know my theory then please PM me. 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. swear I heard some kind of electronic buzzing as it was rattling in the glass. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. Reading time: 2 mins Seen on: 10 May 2022 by Dawn Geddes. Honestly the most confusing experience of my entire life. 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. So now they have two pieces of footage. The cameraman gets a good look at this, we can all see it. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. In this brand new podcast series, Derren Brown explores the many pressures and worries we experience in modern life and how we can find meaningful ways to manage them better. DB's team are quickly picking the same card out of a deck back stage. 3rd trick, he walks over and puts it in the suspended box. 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. They are stood out of sight of most of the audience, at the bottom of the stairs, next to a stage door. And I have to say it's one of the best tricks he's done at a live stage show. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Just got back from the Edinburgh show and was going to ask the same thing. So that leads us to only one conclusion, we have all missed/forgot 20 seconds of the show. I like this theory. 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 But I won't post public Spoilers. Again, it doesn't really matter which method he used here, either way the original card is now in his pocket. He then introduced us to people who have clearly influenced him. Spoiler alert Ultimately, he is a fantastic entertainer, and an expert in reading human behaviour and . He comes out to a crowd of eager fans who expect to be blown-away, astounded, gob-smacked, or whichever cliche you care to throw into the mix. He is warm, charismatic and builds a rapport, careful not to make anyone in the auditorium feel uncomfortable. This didnt happen. 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. I saw that show too and was baffled at the end. 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. 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". 2000-2023 Derren Brown & Vaudeville Productions Ltd. All rights reserved, A fantastic show a performance that will blow your mind.. At this point in the show, the participant is blindfolded. Its Browns first brand new live show in 6 years; its the first time Ive seen him live and its clear why his previous shows have received such critical acclaim. 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. Then just some classic Derren sleight of hand to switch out the card in the swinging box with the signed card as the watcher was not permited to remove the card from the box her/himself. 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. Like the rest of the world - the tour had been rescheduled multiple times due to the pandemic. I think thats enough hints. 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. 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. 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. The UK Tour continues until October 2022 For full dates and ticket purchases, check out Derren Brown: Showman. 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. Is there anybody who heard the full countdown? Hell of a show though, and well worth seeing. 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 how he could of done it so much better the entire way through. It was a woman last night, but was probably a man on other nights. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. Glasgow King's Theatre 4 - 12 March 2022 Edinburgh Playhouse 3 - 7 May 2022 Aberdeen Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. - don't know. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I'll inbox you conclusion we came too, as I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. 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. I have an idea how some of it was done, but it only throws up more 'impossible' things that I can't explain! This is simply not true. 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