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Peter Clifford and Peter Wardell Review |
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Written by Bill Hammersley
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Friday, 04 June 2010 07:42 |
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At the end of a beautiful summer's day what could be more enjoyable than seeing first class magic being performed live. A good audience of around 200 attended "Peter's Friends" at Newbury Corn Exchange on Thursday evening, to see Peter Clifford and Pete Wardell.
Peter opened the show by writing down single digital numbers called out by the audience, and when he totalled these up, they added up to 3610. He showed a prediction on which was written the word "Today". He then reminded us that the date today was 3/6/10. Very clever and fooled many magicians in the audience. A running feature of Peter's set was an effect with envelopes in which were coins, these were opened on request from chosen audience members, and the coin in the envelope matched a gift box on view on the stage throughout.
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Peter Clifford and Peter Wardell at the Newbury Corn Exchange |
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Written by David Chaudoir
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Friday, 04 June 2010 07:38 |
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Two Peters but two very contrasting performances and magic from the two magicians. Peter Clifford has a very gentle and softly spoken style and performed a series of mentalism effects and magic using his theatrical career as a narrative backdrop. Mr Wardell on the other hand was an outrageous, loud and energetic ex-busker whose audience participation was quick witted and great fun.
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Alex Lodge Light & Illusion Show |
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Written by Keith Churcher
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 13:49 |
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Alex Lodge returned to The Haymarket Theatre to present his Electric Show to an almost full house on the 30th March 2010 Robin Maddy (President of The Home Counties Magical Society) said to me afterwards “It was good to see a partial return to a real Variety Show with the two excellent Speciality Acts and Dancers to complement the Magic and Illusions of Alex.
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Arturo Brachetti 'Change' Review |
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Written by Dale Shrimpton
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 18:14 |
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 Arturo Brachetti Change.
Garrick theatre London
Reviewed by Dale Shrimpton
This show, has to be without doubt one of the most magical evenings I have ever spent in the theatre.
It starts in darkness; the lights come up, to reveal a huge wooden cube.
The cube revolves, and when it comes to a halt, a door opens, and a masked man carrying an umbrella enters.
He places the umbrella in the ground, and proceeds to remove his masks. one after another, in a seemingly endless line.
The last is removed, and we see the star, Brachetti.
However, he is old. And it is here, that the play begins. The story of the life, and influences of Arturo.
The next section, is a whirlwind of changes dedicated to London, starting with a flash transformation into a guardsman, complete with bearskin, a kinky business man, the queen, and a punk rocker, unable to spit at the audience, because of the huge amount of paper in it.
The cube now revolves and splits, and we see inside the house of Brachetti, covered in his memories, and memorabilia. |
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Henley Fringe Festival Comedy Cruise Headlined by Noel Britten |
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Written by Richard Young
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:50 |
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Last year this event was the
first Fringe show to sell out in advance. The idea is fantastic, a cruise
along the Thames from Henley past all the amazingly extravagant houses
of the rich and famous (including Paul Daniels and Debbie’s home)
while being entertained in the sunshine by three comedians on the open
air deck, and all for only £12! Sounds like a great evening doesn’t
it? So I booked four tickets for myself and my partner and two magician
friends. The Comedy Cruise for me was a chance to see if this guy really practices what he preaches. The evening
unfortunately was marred by bad weather which resulted in the show being
moved inside the boat. There were not enough seats for everyone and
it got very hot indeed. In addition to this the audio was not brilliant
and the people towards the back were struggling to hear. The first two
comedians were unfortunately not very funny. The first being a female
primary school teacher from Maidenhead. Although she started well the
jokes unfortunately got worse and worse and she lost the audience and
panicked and began rambling. By the end of her act no one was laughing
and we felt her pain. The second comedienne unfortunately was even worse.
She came in from the back of the audience clutching a broom decorated
like a horse, she also forgot to use the microphone and unfortunately
very little was funny and the silence was deafening. It was the most
uncomfortable I have ever been watching any performer. An interval followed
and the comments amongst the audience were just terrible. Noel Britten
must have felt the pressure to be good, because we all certainly did!
On the way home my friend said
it was like watching a superhero work. I couldn’t agree more. Noel
Britten literally saved this event and practiced everything he preached
in his lecture notes. He was likable, modest, had the most brilliant
timing and show structure and he was hilarious. The magic that was presented
was just the right amount considering this was advertised as a comedy
show. A heckler was dealt with and silenced with the perfect line; “I’d
love to chat but I’m a bit busy at the minute”. He was also not
afraid or embarrassed to acknowledge that the first half of the show
wasn’t great when he commented; “it’s one of those nights where
I wish I could swim.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone turn
something around is such a spectacular fashion and I really think it
would be fantastic to see if we can get Noel to lecture at the HCMS
in the near future. |
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