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Lionel Dobie Project HQ | 91 Hewitt Street, M15 4GB
Thursday 20th June 2013
6pm - 8pm
This event is the first in a series of three live events from current resident Rosie Farrell, who’s research project “Could it be Magic, Now” emerges from research done into the writings and experiences of two (fictitious) magicians in Christopher Priest’s science fiction novel “The Prestige.” In Priest’s novel he states through the voice of one of his protagonists, what seems to be a fundamental principle of the art of magic and conjuring, namely that magic tricks are always divided into three stages. The first is called the pledge. This has to do with the preparation, a sort of prelude during which the magician exhibits the accessories of his tricks and secures the audience’s attention, and it is from here that this event will take it’s que…
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