Privacy Policy. 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. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. Act 2 begins. 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. and our 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. Location London. 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. 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. Derren noticed it and tried to do a little thing scribbling with the pen to say its running out. I was on stage as the die roller/coin flipper/bank note guy. Any one have any theory how that would be possible? As far as she is concerned, she has received the exact same checking over treatment as the other 2 people. You're almost right. 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. 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. 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. 2000-2023 Derren Brown & Vaudeville Productions Ltd. All rights reserved, A fantastic show a performance that will blow your mind.. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Ok so only problem is, the trick didn't work on my Dad. Derren Brown in Showman 2021/2022. Of course, the mind-boggling illusions remain a secret. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre, Glasgow, SHOWMAN will tour the UK and Ireland until 29 October 2022. This is simply not true. They're waiting, watching the amazing chair trick to end act 1. 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. Fun show last night (Night of Wonders) - for me its fun to work out how the tricks are done, though you should just let it lie and enjoy the show. The first thing we need to do is eliminate what DB wants us to believe. Learn how your comment data is processed. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. But that's another story. We never see footage of that. 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Care to point me in the right direction regarding the thumb tip? Yeah my guess is. I saw him come back down. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre,. Could he have the stage area duplicated back stage? His stage persona is immaculate. Like saying to a man "you've recently thought about Konnie Huq"? 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. 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. But I won't post public Spoilers. At this point in the show, the participant is blindfolded. I think thats enough hints. If you have a ticket for this weeks run at the New Theatre in Cardiff, hang on to them and make sure you go, and when you do, keep your experience spoiler free. Ive spent the whole day convinced that you must of been a stooge or something..but now I dont know what to think! Showman is, at its heart, a show about how the. Went to see it in Birmingham in October. Subscribe For More Derren Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialDerrenDerren Brown is a British mentalist, illusionist and author. Showman is the much-anticipated live show tour by British performer, Derren Brown, now touring the UK until 2022. We are implored not to give anything away before the curtain falls. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I've inboxed you what me and my partner think, as I don't want to spoil anything for people that may not of seen it. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Dont know why youre being downvoted, this is 100% right. Oooh I never considered that! Maybe I should go again and secretly film when I get backstage. He is a storyteller who can keep 1200 people hanging onto what he says and does. I kinda want to go again and film it to see if its real. Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. 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. My theory: because it happened at a completely different time to when we are led to believe it happened. 1 35 He showed the video at the end of the trick and we all was like, "Nah, that didn't happen." I have a good guess at how the third time is done. 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. Reading time: 2 mins Seen on: 10 May 2022 by Dawn Geddes. Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. 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). So therefore, what we see in that video at the end DID happen. It was a woman last night, but was probably a man on other nights. All those little head shakes and nods he does -- are they just tics or are they a crucial part of his techniques? He then chooses a second person (who's hands also stuck earlier) with the Frisbee. Delighted to hear that other people had the same experience unless of course we were just in the majority that were under his spell! His team backstage are putting together a split screen video using the two pieces of footage. I get you, but there was a second person not chosen at the same time. Derren Brown began his career on British television 20 years ago and has become something of a fixture since. But I won't say publicly. Or art. Honestly felt like everything I knew in life was shattered. I want to know how he knew personal histories, like "you're thinking about dying your hair". 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. So now they have two pieces of footage. 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. Its best just to go with the flow and enjoy a master at work. That part finishes, and DB retains 1 of the 4 people on stage to do the balancing chair trick to end act 1. DB then hypnotises her/him in exactly the same was as we see in act 2. In our show tonight he "didn't press hard enough" too and had a light "5" on there. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. He froze the man in place on the chair and then the curtain came down. He then lines them up, and there is a funny segment where they can't remember the number 7. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I correctly guessed them all once i realised this. 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. 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. Oh dear sorry I meant card in the box, got it mixed up lol. They wouldn't have felt it or remembered it when they came round. Went to see Derren Brown's Showman yesterday. The man is a fecking genius innit. I saw you at the show last night! The story told was that they were being checked out to make sure they were no longer hypnotised. Just from knowing a little more about what happens to the person on stage. 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. Like the rest of the world - the tour had been rescheduled multiple times due to the pandemic. Anyone got any theories? 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It's the same trick he used for when he predicted the lottery numbers, and it works beautifully. 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. 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. Originally scheduled pre-pandemic, COVID has clearly had a significant influence on the show that is now being performed across the country. The first is of DB and the playing card person (from during the interval) and the second is essentially what we all saw, but filmed from the side of the stage. 1st trick, he reaches over the desk. I went last night. 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. Glasgow King's Theatre 4 - 12 March 2022 Edinburgh Playhouse 3 - 7 May 2022 Aberdeen Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Secondly, and this is what is so exciting about seeing him live, every performance is different. 1. I got put under by him and it was a marvelous experience. I was hoping that you would tell me how he managed to guess UFO and whip in 20 questions. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. For just over two hours this consummate professional has the audience in the palm of his hand. "Crabbing and Caravans: A September Break on the English Riviera", "One Day in London: Greenwich Museums and the Bermondsey Beer Mile", Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), AD GIFTED TICKET | I never fail to appreciate that, Chris is out tonight so this is how Im spending, Wow, 2023 has been a ride so far! If anyone wants to know my theory then please PM me. I think this is probably right but he's doing what, over 200 shows on this tour? Im a sceptic, always looking for those moments of distraction or sleight-of-hand. 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. 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. 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. My partner who went with me wasn't affect by any of it. His Majesty's Theatre British illusionist wows audience with his most personal show to date. If you want to know my idea just drop me a message. We put our hands up first too because he asked 'Who saw the red lightsand saw 'name' walk across the stage to the box'. Would love to know which part you thought was fake tho if your willing to share? Derren has well and truly earned himself a fan. 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. First of all, you absolutely dont want to give anything away spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. I'm talking about the big reveal right at the very end! I really don't want the experience of that show to be ruined for anyone. 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. *Why is this post marked AD? At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. 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. DB requires the same person (from the forgotten number 7 game) back on stage. 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. 13 May 2022. However. The unofficial pub capital of the world. During the blackout, there simply wasn't time for the person to get off the chair, walk across with DB, climb up, put the card in the box, climb down and walk back to their seat. Saw you still sitting in your chair at the end and you looked pretty perplexed! Please see this post I did a while ago for a detailed explanation. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. The content of SHOWMAN remains a closely guarded secret, but if youve seen him before, you know youre in for a powerhouse treat! Would love to hear your theory about how the final peice was done. SPOILER Derren Brown - Showman (Spoilers) Coin trick. I've worked out how about 3/4 of the tricks are done (i think!). I'm talking about the person who is sat with DB at the table in act 2 and is hypnotised to put a playing card in a wooden box. 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? They're waiting, watching the amazing chair trick to end act 1. But I'm stoked to hear how exciting you found it being on stage. After all, its a performance that relies on intrigue. They didnt appear again for a good 10 minutes. I can't remember how much of the actual architecture is in the shot to begin with but if he just needs a large black floor and his table then it could work. I have an idea how some of it was done, but it only throws up more 'impossible' things that I can't explain! Do women just always think about dying their hair? He is a multi-award winning performer, part magician, illusionist and mind reader, or maybe even someone who is very skilled at tricking our minds. I wasn't brave enough to do this in front of Derren. I like this theory. Derren openly admits he's a "fake" - it's all just magic tricks, after all. Derren is at his very best on stage. Who said you, The smell of old books hits you as soon as you str, Dublin. He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. . Master mind-reading performers from another century who did remarkable, and sometimes verging on unlawful things with their abilities. They are stood out of sight of most of the audience, at the bottom of the stairs, next to a stage door. 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. 20 Questions The giveaway with 20 Questions was that the 6 people had to write down the answers on a bit of paper at the back of the stage. Of course, because he hasn't memorised all the books. 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. 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. 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. Meanwhile, the usher and those 3 audience members have disappeared, I assume through the stage door they were stood next to. 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. I was thinking about the venue as we made our way to our seats. At this point DB says sorry it needs to be someone who wasn't up on stage earlier on, and instructs her to throw the Frisbee to someone else. So it couldnt have been recorded then, Nobody saw what allegedly happened. 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 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!! It is DERREN BROWN SHOWMAN, but actually you can add into that mix and the AUDIENCE. I may have set my expectations too high and in some ways the show was more predictable than I had anticipated. But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. But Brown is certainly not there to humiliate volunteers into clucking like a chicken or revealing their deepest, darkest desires. 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. 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 . 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. 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. He places the box on a stand which requires someone to stand on a chair to get to. What a shitty thread. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. His ease on stage is second to none, and the way he reacts with the audience and volunteers is masterful. - no. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. But actually, it can be equally challenging for us in the audience too. I noticed the guy who came back later to be used again appeared near the end of the interval. If you Google that it will explain better how it was done. I do love to try and figure out his tricks myself so I did look all over the card to see if anything was amiss but the only thing I saw was a tiny dot drawn on pen at the top, presumably to line up the zancig board. Its that setting which is so well suited to seeing Derren live, particularly in Showman. 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. Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. And I have to say it's one of the best tricks he's done at a live stage show. Derren just glossed over it at the time saying some of you will have seen what happened but no one did. 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.". 18/03/2022 00:21. 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 was in London over the weekend with my husband Ruud Evers, to tick a long overdue 'to-do' off my list. The most sensible solution is that it's a different card. I found myself looking for the language, both spoken and non-verbal, which may impel people to behave in one way or another. I had to hide my giggles as this was clearly a deep seated hatred requiring years of therapy and I, as a mere mortal was not willing to go there. The explanation was his prodigious memory and the academic tricks he uses to retain information. 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. It's driving me nuts, I would like to know the part the thought was fake as well if you wouldn't mind inboxing me too plz. Showman is a 10 out of 10 knock out. For the record I have seen Derren a few times live, and like many of us, have watched every show and bit hes done on TV over the years. In eight episodes, packed with gripping real life stories and cutting edge science, the series takes you into the deeper recesses of the mind, to reveal whats going on, identify the bits which tend to go wrong and show you how to repair them. 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. KindEnvironment5098 5 mo. I was the box watcher in Belfast. He is all of those things, but actually so much more. These are the obvious tricks. As for the original signed card, DB probably took this out of the card box during the blackout when the person was sat there under hypnosis. We heard the first bit and stuck our hand up but then he asked 'Who didn't see anything/just saw darkness'. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatres Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. Be sure to subscribe and catch all the amazing moments of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection \u0026 showmanship! Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. But. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. What does the content of you e-reader say about you? He'd memorised the info about them before the show. Or coffee? We were all there to be entertained, but also retained some scepticism. I saw that show too and was baffled at the end. Press J to jump to the feed. It didn't work on him. Derren channels the experiences of those in attendance - past, present and future - into a mesmerising, and downright poignant, couple of hours. The video was pre-recorded during the intermission, behind the heavy curtain. 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. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatre's Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. I always love the tv specials he does but Ive never seen him live! People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. Dont expect a great big flashy, glitzy set, this is Derren Brown not David Copperfield. I saw your show in Hull too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect. 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. Does anyone remember a TV series from the late 60s where a man goes for walks with his talking house and dustbin. 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. Did you go on stage during the interval at all? A small venue, which hid nothing from the audience. He relies completely on us to allow him to take us on the journey with him. Again, it doesn't really matter which method he used here, either way the original card is now in his pocket.
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