Learn how your comment data is processed. He wants us to believe, in showing that video, that each and every one of us in that theatre missed/forgot 15-20 seconds of the show. I've worked out how about 3/4 of the tricks are done (i think!). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Ive spent the whole day convinced that you must of been a stooge or something..but now I dont know what to think! Any idea how the name for the teddy bear and the dad comments appear on the badge? Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Because as far as the audience are concerned, their segment of the show is finished. 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. Does anyone remember a TV series from the late 60s where a man goes for walks with his talking house and dustbin. What I can tell you about the sold-out audience at the New Theatre in Cardiff, who were there to see the opening night of DERREN BROWN SHOWMAN, is that we werent disappointed on any front. But wait! Main photo: Mark Douet. The hypnotised dude would have been given a pen that wouldn't mark the board. I get you, but there was a second person not chosen at the same time. He often claims his impossible effects are merely achieved through \"\"magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship\"\". Imagine what would happen if anyone could get on stage during the interval. I think they then spliced the two videos together during the period between the trick and the video reveal. And yes, I still havent really told you about the show. 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'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. Glasgow King's Theatre 4 - 12 March 2022 Edinburgh Playhouse 3 - 7 May 2022 Aberdeen But how did an entire audience miss this right in front of our eyes? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. But now I assume it's so they could film that 30s clip. Honestly the most confusing experience of my entire life. Looking forward to seeing it myself next year! Each and everyone of us cheered and applauded at every appropriate moment of this story he took us on. 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. (I saw the show twice last month). Author Andy Nyman, Derren Brown . I have no inside knowledge so my theory is completely based on what I saw last night. I wasn't brave enough to do this in front of Derren. Very strange this, why didn't they just return to their seats? Its that setting which is so well suited to seeing Derren live, particularly in Showman. Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. He then chooses a second person (who's hands also stuck earlier) with the Frisbee. Does legacy TV programme footage deteriorate over time. So during the blackout, one of two things happens. He was just staying with them while DB finished act 1. 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. You can pay a visit HERE if youd like to check. Derren Brown is an award-winning illusionist, magician and mentalist. I laughed along to the person the first and second time, but the 3rd time he got about 70% of the audience, me included. But I'm stoked to hear how exciting you found it being on stage. It may not display this or other websites correctly. DB requires the same person (from the forgotten number 7 game) back 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. He really is the ultimate storyteller, which by now we accept is all part of the routine, if indeed you can call it that. Then, end of act 1, big black-out temporarily, curtain comes down. But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. 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. Theres a way around this but its not that straight forward I dont think. Derren is at his very best on stage. Derren Brown asks questions about the world, and his intelligent curiosity benefits us all. Elizabeth Day, Derren Brown gets into your brain and reveals how to make it work better. Its best just to go with the flow and enjoy a master at work. Giving them time to film the shot for the trick. Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. People are talking, getting up to go to the bar/toilet. I correctly guessed them all once i realised this. He froze the man in place on the chair and then the curtain came down. 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. 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. 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. I think this is probably right but he's doing what, over 200 shows on this tour? Be sure to subscribe and catch all the amazing moments of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection \u0026 showmanship! 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. Derren Brown began his career on British television 20 years ago and has become something of a fixture since. DB's team are quickly picking the same card out of a deck back stage. 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. I have no idea how he did it, the hand thing didn't work at all on me, but that must have. He'd memorised the info about them before the show. Went to see Derren Brown's Showman yesterday. And thats what Derren does best. I noticed in particular that the clip is filmed at an angle where you can't see the front of the stage and so can't see the audience or if the curtain is down. Derren told me in our telephone interview ahead of . Coming into a review of a DERREN BROWN live show is tricky. I noticed the guy who came back later to be used again appeared near the end of the interval. So now DB's team has footage of him walking with the lady, her putting the card in the box, and her walking back to her seat. 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. 1. He places the box on a stand which requires someone to stand on a chair to get to. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. With . Yes, its expensive. Any one have any theory how that would be possible? 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. But I also need to tell you, he is so damn funny. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did pal. Theres also a set or pictures on the wall, particularly one of Laurel and Hardy when they were in town back in the day. The finale, too, was a very clever use of camera trickery. But it seems impossible, and nobody in the audience has seen it happen. They didnt appear again for a good 10 minutes. Bounty hunter Sharkey tracks criminals across the galaxy in his converted, rocket-powered ice-cream truck -- with help from his 10-year-old partner. Which basically means that he plays tricks of the mind and manipulates the audience into seeing and thinking what he wants them to see and think. Like the OP, I performed a similar function at yesterday's matine performance. The problem is that the wooden box wasnt suspendes until the 3rd trick. Production name Derren Brown: Showman. I was the box watcher in Belfast. I'm fairly sure our guy got an interval. 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. I feel like there was something inside the dice (a thumper) that was vibrating the dice until it could be confident that it would land with the predicted number facing upwards. Venue Apollo Theatre. 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!! Whilst all of that is happening, the second person on stage, the "watcher" is standing very still and is staring at the box. He is a storyteller who can keep 1200 people hanging onto what he says and does. So now they have two pieces of footage. We are implored not to give anything away before the curtain falls. It wasn't filmed in the interval though. Being up on stage, I noticed that the back of the chair that the hypnotised guy was sitting on was hella thick, so I am pretty convinced that a stagehand was indicating to the hypnotised guy how the coin landed through pulses in the back of the chair. 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. In our show tonight he "didn't press hard enough" too and had a light "5" on there. Im guessing this was him using his powers of suggestion to the audience that some people saw something that you did not. Same for person 2. However, all I heard was 5, 4, 1 and must have lost about 10-15 seconds. Derren Brown - Showman will take place at the Gaiety, Dublin from April 12-16, the Grand Opera House, Belfast from April 19-23 and the Millennium Forum, Derry from April 26-30. If anyone wants to know my theory then please PM me. 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. I will say. Is that your theory or do u know for sure? 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. Derren openly admits he's a "fake" - it's all just magic tricks, after all. You are right. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. Then, as his career progressed, I was lucky to catch him at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. 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. I saw your show in Hull too! If your already a fan you will 100% love it. PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SHOWMAN. We need to look back at her movements from the moment she was chosen to go on stage. That's exactly what DB wants us to believe. I sat in that chair for a good while. We put our hands up first too because he asked 'Who saw the red lightsand saw 'name' walk across the stage to the box'. 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 1 35 So, where do they go? This would fall apart immediately if someone could testify that either of the two audience members were sitting in the audience as it happened. 02, 2021. A PM or just commenting in code will be great! Yeah, the table trick is pretty straightforward, and old school. W. Delighted to hear that other people had the same experience unless of course we were just in the majority that were under his spell! Derren has well and truly earned himself a fan. 1st trick, he reaches over the desk. And she's the one who wanted to go see him in the first place. All those little head shakes and nods he does -- are they just tics or are they a crucial part of his techniques? So then for the trick. Would love to hear your theory and any others, please inbox me as I am completely baffled by the finale and I need some form of answer to this confusion!! I have a Derren Question. Tickets are available at www.atgtickets.com. He then lines them up, and there is a funny segment where they can't remember the number 7. I would say to ask yourself which is the even remotely plausable explanation between those two and work it from there.That's the problem with this show, Derren makes it so impossible, it can only be done one way, and you don't have to be a magician to work it out. In A Book of Secrets, Derren Brown shows us that it is in thosemoments when we are faced with adversity that we can find lifes most lasting rewards. He is all of those things, but actually so much more. The stage curtains including a large heavy safety curtain come down obscuring the view of the stage. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The second being that the video played at theend was pre-recorded during the interval, but that theory has a fewissues that I won't get into here. He didn't explain why it had to be her, but made a point of saying its not something he usually does. I think the 50% thing was intentionally confusing. https://www.reddit.com/r/derrenbrown/comments/viwx4j/derren_brown_showman_the_ending_explained_in/. What does the content of you e-reader say about you? Which in reality is true, accepting that every performance is different. He saw the whole thing, Derren getting the chair, the guy standing on it, putting card in etc etc. In my show lots of people put their hands up saying they saw it? 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". Actually, he most certainly does not. I was sitting in row 3 and could see everything during the two blackouts. As part of a whopping 155-venue world tour, SHOWMAN will be performing seven shows a week between December 2022 and March 2023. You must log in or register to reply here. . Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000 hes produced multiple series and specials, winning two Laurence Olivier Awards. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. But believers will believe, and it is the willing participants which will make every single show a different experience. However. The tour is a long one running right through till October. But. They wouldn't have felt it or remembered it when they came round. At the time, I couldn't think of a legitimate reason why it would have been there. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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! The story told was that they were being checked out to make sure they were no longer hypnotised. Would love to hear your theory about how the final peice was done. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The person at the table has chosen the card and signed it. I kinda want to go again and film it to see if its real. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Derren Brown in Showman 2021/2022. 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. 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. 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. He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. If you want to know my idea just drop me a message. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. His experience of the last couple of years has been parallel to all of us, and it was this shared bond which held the theme of the show. My theory: because it happened at a completely different time to when we are led to believe it happened. To us the signatures will look the same. It is then quickly edited with the 3rd attempt, cut split screen to include the box watcher by Derrens team off stage. 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