I have an idea how some of it was done, but it only throws up more 'impossible' things that I can't explain! At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. The former we enjoyed for the whole two and a half hours of the show (with an interval), the latter was thrown out the door and replaced with a true gasp of amazement. Starts 09/12/2022. He then moves onto the chair balancing trick, while the other 3 are waiting with an usher at the bottom of the stairs. Ive spent the whole day convinced that you must of been a stooge or something..but now I dont know what to think! Derren once did a camera trick on TV where he predicted the lottery, using split screen editing. I went to see the show last night, and spent the remainder of the evening trying to work out how DB pulled off the trick involving the playing card in the box and in particular the video at the end. Running time 2hrs 40mins. He sits her down at the same table, and makes her walk across to the hanging box to place the playing card inside. Showman Coin in the Box (Spoilers) Anyone know how tf Derren pulled off the card in the box trick? And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. On the left hand side we have DB and the card person, on the right we have the watcher. I have a Derren Question. I just wondered if he'd given a subtle clue. 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. What I did notice, was that although the "whiteboard" was blank before the guy started write anything, literally nobody saw what he had written until he was done (the board was turned away from me, it wasn't on the big screen and the guy himself was blindfolded). I was the participant for one of the shows for this trick and when Derren handed me the cardboard, it was completely blank. 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 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. It is DERREN BROWN SHOWMAN, but actually you can add into that mix and the AUDIENCE. First of all, you absolutely don't want to give anything away - spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. This makes sense to me. 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. Youll thank us for that. He's a mind reader so he could find out and I would face legal consequences. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatres Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. 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. The card didnt get used in the show I saw. Would be very interested to hear your theory too. Hell of a show though, and well worth seeing. You really could sit there all night and listen to him. 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. 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. The tour is a long one running right through till October. info@southwaleslife.com, Derren Brown: Showman Our Spoiler-Free Opening Night Review, Matthew Bournes Nutcracker! However, you can trust that I will always be honest and truthful on A Brummie Home and Abroad, and being an invited guest will not influence my opinion in any way. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I'm talking about the big reveal right at the very end! Im a sceptic, always looking for those moments of distraction or sleight-of-hand. The box wasnt suspended for the first trick. 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. 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. 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. 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He saw the whole thing, Derren getting the chair, the guy standing on it, putting card in etc etc. 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 Theres a way around this but its not that straight forward I dont think. Incidentally, if anyone you know has been to see the show, tell them to be quiet, not tell you anything, and dont dare ruin it. The cameraman gets a good look at this, we can all see it. But such is the talent of Brown that even I was baffled at times by what I had witnessed. went to see the show last night. Went to see it in Birmingham in October. The hand and memory thing is just to try find the kind of person he needs. 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. With . If you put the two cards next to each other there will be small discrepancies, but that's irrelevant. The numbers the man was writing were much darker, like a pen with fresh ink. You're almost right. Secondly, and this is what is so exciting about seeing him live, every performance is different. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Ends 19/03/2023. 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. Dont expect a great big flashy, glitzy set, this is Derren Brown not David Copperfield. We of course do, and when its over, we are are left with a collective bond, like we have all shared something only the 1500 of us in the theatre can ever experience. Press J to jump to the feed. What I did learn from my time on stage was that Derren appears to make really good use of technology in his performances. 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. Theres also a set or pictures on the wall, particularly one of Laurel and Hardy when they were in town back in the day. 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. I was on stage as the die roller/coin flipper/bank note guy. They are stood out of sight of most of the audience, at the bottom of the stairs, next to a stage door. Again, it doesn't really matter which method he used here, either way the original card is now in his pocket. Showman is the much-anticipated live show tour by British performer, Derren Brown, now touring the UK until 2022. 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 --. 1 35 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. I kinda want to go again and film it to see if its real. I say challenging, and I am of course referring to Derren himself. I had to check with Pa Lee my plus one for the evening whether my mind was playing tricks on me. 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. The most sensible solution is that it's a different card. So during the blackout, one of two things happens. No, i, But first coffee. We saw on stage in act 2 that she couldn't remember putting the playing card in the box on the floor, so equally she wouldn't remember doing all of what I have just described during the interval. 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. But I'm stoked to hear how exciting you found it being on stage. *Why is this post marked AD? 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 . But that's another story. I honestly don't know how the hell he did it other than hypnosis. For tickets, go to https://derrenbrown.co.uk/Welcome to the official Derren Brown YouTube channel. 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 . He is engaging and funny and not once do you feel he is wrestling to get to his final goals. I always love the tv specials he does but Ive never seen him live! Derren channels the experiences of those in attendance - past, present and future - into a mesmerising, and downright poignant, couple of hours. 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. 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. They wouldn't have felt it or remembered it when they came round. He then lines them up, and there is a funny segment where they can't remember the number 7. and our Before he was known at all, I saw him perform close-up magic to a handful of people, me being one of them. So this just leaves person 3 (our playing card person) with DB and his team back stage. I was at the show last night (Thursday) too and was also very confused but when 50% of people put their hand up the first time I had actually put my hand up out of confusion because it wasnt quite clear what he had asked I thought he asked who saw the lights flash, nobody actually saw what happened the video at the end must have been pre recorded during the interval like a few people have suggested, its a brilliant trick and very well executed. https://www.reddit.com/r/derrenbrown/comments/viwx4j/derren_brown_showman_the_ending_explained_in/. His Majesty's Theatre British illusionist wows audience with his most personal show to date. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. And that it isn't difficult to get information about people once you have their name, address, credit card details and whatnot. He is all of those things, but actually so much more. And thats what Derren does best. I'll inbox you conclusion we came too, as I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. Or maybe were all under some kind of mass hypnotic spell. Did he guess your correctly and was specific? Honestly the most confusing experience of my entire life. There was no 'security check' for hidden cameras. He often claims his impossible effects are merely achieved through \"\"magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship\"\". 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. 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. - no. So currently, we have two working theories about the trick, one beingthat he really just hypnotized half the audience to forget what happenedduring the 3rd attempt. It didn't work on him. But now I assume it's so they could film that 30s clip. 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. He then introduced us to people who have clearly influenced him. His connection with us was life affirming. So let's focus on that person. Feel free to Ama about the experience and I'll try answer best I can from what Derren has let me remember. This didnt happen. 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. That part finishes, and DB retains 1 of the 4 people on stage to do the balancing chair trick to end act 1. It was a life changing time in history which will live with us forever. 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. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. Derren Brown: Showman. Press night 15/12/2022. SPOILER Derren Brown - Showman (Spoilers) Coin trick. Derren has created a new show that does not feel like any of his previous shows (based upon what we have seen on DVD). 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. The story told was that they were being checked out to make sure they were no longer hypnotised. 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. Production name Derren Brown: Showman. 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