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. Actually, he most certainly does not. Theres a way around this but its not that straight forward I dont think. Our guy (Bham show, 29th Oct) had to stand on a chair to even reach the box! It worked on me though, I didn't see a thing. Hes completely in tune with the human psyche knowing what makes us tick, function and even vulnerable. The stage curtains including a large heavy safety curtain come down obscuring the view of the stage. PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SHOWMAN. People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. Or coffee? I think it might be filmed during the blackout on the first card trick. It wasn't filmed in the interval though. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. But wait! But some of the things aren't fake in the way of being straight up lies. (Ad: Event Invite*) Its tricky to talk about the latest Derren Brown show without giving away any spoilers. I get you, but there was a second person not chosen at the same time. 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). I have just been to see it tonight and I think I know exactly how he did the last trick. But then I believe that all they actually did during the missing 15 seconds was knock the box so that it would swing, I think the camera angle did two things to firstly, as you mentioned, block the audience so you couldnt see whether the curtain was up or down, but also secondly to ensure that the person watching the box and the person putting the card in the box dont overlap. 1. 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. Derren once did a camera trick on TV where he predicted the lottery, using split screen editing. Youll thank us for that. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINERS SPOILERS. He places the box on a stand which requires someone to stand on a chair to get to. Well, as they were leaving the stage DB said he had to "check" on them. DB then hypnotises her/him in exactly the same was as we see in act 2. 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! 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. Running time 2hrs 40mins. This would fall apart immediately if someone could testify that either of the two audience members were sitting in the audience as it happened. 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. 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. 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. He was just staying with them while DB finished act 1. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. But believers will believe, and it is the willing participants which will make every single show a different experience. Main photo: Mark Douet. I think the 50% thing was intentionally confusing. So, the usher has these 3 people, 1 of which is the playing card person. A signature isn't that hard to copy, especially when you're looking at the close up on the camera. checked out to make sure they were no longer hypnotised? He is all of those things, but actually so much more. Honestly the most confusing experience of my entire life. 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. 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. Whilst all of that is happening, the second person on stage, the "watcher" is standing very still and is staring at the box. Feel free to dm questions that may possibly ruin it. I was the box watcher in Belfast. 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.". 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. DB's team are quickly picking the same card out of a deck back stage. The hand and memory thing is just to try find the kind of person he needs. I correctly guessed them all once i realised this. The explanation was his prodigious memory and the academic tricks he uses to retain information. Be prepared to laugh, a lot, and maybe cry too. 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. 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. You are right. You're almost right. Or maybe were all under some kind of mass hypnotic spell. I have a Derren Question. These are the obvious tricks. I've seen a woman - totally convinced of her own genuineness - do a similar thing on herself! Press J to jump to the feed. When we showed the serial number on the big screen, it was absolutely the serial number of the note I last held onto. Press J to jump to the feed. His ease on stage is second to none, and the way he reacts with the audience and volunteers is masterful. I got put under by him and it was a marvelous experience. But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. 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. 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. There is no other explanation. 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. So it couldnt have been recorded then, Nobody saw what allegedly happened. Any idea how the name for the teddy bear and the dad comments appear on the badge? 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. There was no 'security check' for hidden cameras. All those little head shakes and nods he does -- are they just tics or are they a crucial part of his techniques? Is there anybody who heard the full countdown? We heard the first bit and stuck our hand up but then he asked 'Who didn't see anything/just saw darkness'. 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. Noise. Its important that the camera is in exactly the same position here, and that the watcher is stood in the right position, hence why DB had to move her ever so slightly last night. 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 . 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 ?? Derren openly admits he's a "fake" - it's all just magic tricks, after all. I watched carefully, the usher was not checking to see if these 3 people were OK after hypnosis. Firstly; during the interval - I was at the show in Glasgow on Thursday night. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Is that the personalized coin wrapped in string inside a box trick that he did for Enigma? 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. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. I think this is probably right but he's doing what, over 200 shows on this tour? 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. Does legacy TV programme footage deteriorate over time. I believe the numbers are pre written, and the participant simply adds a few of their own. The hypnotised dude would have been given a pen that wouldn't mark the board. He relies completely on us to allow him to take us on the journey with him. https://www.reddit.com/r/derrenbrown/comments/viwx4j/derren_brown_showman_the_ending_explained_in/. The man is a fecking genius innit. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre, Glasgow, SHOWMAN will tour the UK and Ireland until 29 October 2022. 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. Before we go any further, what did the audience think of the show? Hope you enjoyed it as well as I did. My partner who went with me wasn't affect by any of it. 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. W. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. From March 8 to October 29, 2022, Derren Brown, the ever-popular multi-award winning master of mind control and illusion, will be taking SHOWMAN back on the road for . 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. Honestly felt like everything I knew in life was shattered. Oh dear sorry I meant card in the box, got it mixed up lol. Sentimental Objects With Derren Brown! How then did lots of people in the crowd see it happen in the moment? We need to look back at her movements from the moment she was chosen to go on stage. Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. Would love to hear your theory about how the final peice was done. 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. Did you go on stage during the interval at all? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. Derren Brown is still the greatest showman, but his emotional honesty is even more spellbinding.~ Daily Telegraph, A fantastic show a performance that will blow your mind.~ The Guardian, The psychological wizard will leave you utterly amazed.~ Sunday Mirror. He then lines them up, and there is a funny segment where they can't remember the number 7. 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. The numbers the man was writing were much darker, like a pen with fresh ink. I was sat on the far side of the show and it was the exit that the 4 people came out of during the interval. Meanwhile, the usher and those 3 audience members have disappeared, I assume through the stage door they were stood next to. So does Derren feel we are suckers as Barnum would happily say? Ive spent the whole day convinced that you must of been a stooge or something..but now I dont know what to think! 02922-362359 Again, it doesn't really matter which method he used here, either way the original card is now in his pocket. 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. My theory: because 1 of these 3 people (the playing card person) was still needed by DB. Audience participation is encouraged from the off, and there are a surprising number of people keen to be publicly manipulated in the name of entertainment. 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. However, all I heard was 5, 4, 1 and must have lost about 10-15 seconds. Because as far as the audience are concerned, their segment of the show is finished. 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. The finale, too, was a very clever use of camera trickery. I noticed the guy who came back later to be used again appeared near the end of the interval. Derren channels the experiences of those in attendance - past, present and future - into a mesmerising, and downright poignant, couple of hours. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatre's Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. "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! He didn't explain why it had to be her, but made a point of saying its not something he usually does. Derren is at his very best on stage. Who said you, The smell of old books hits you as soon as you str, Dublin. 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. JavaScript is disabled. I wasn't brave enough to do this in front of Derren. But such is the talent of Brown that even I was baffled at times by what I had witnessed. Brown manages to achieve a sense of connectivity throughout the audience as he opens the show discussing "how the thing that makes us feel most alone, are the things that bring us together most,". Showman is, at its heart, a show about how the. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. At one point he makes reference to the greatest showman, P T Barnum, yes, the man who inspired the film. 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!! If you can, get to a venue and grab some seats, the trip will be worth every mile of your hard earned fuel. Care to point me in the right direction regarding the thumb tip? (Showman: Light Spoilers) Laura Masters 597 subscribers Subscribe 441 views 5 months ago On 28th July 2022, I saw Derren Brown perform. KindEnvironment5098 5 mo. If your already a fan you will 100% love it. I found myself looking for the language, both spoken and non-verbal, which may impel people to behave in one way or another. 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. First of all, you absolutely don't want to give anything away - spoilers are a definite no-no for us, and Derren. I have a good guess at how the third time is done. With . 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