But I also need to tell you, he is so damn funny. Derren once did a camera trick on TV where he predicted the lottery, using split screen editing. The man is a fecking genius innit. First rule of seeing a Derren Brown show is: you don't talk about what you saw in the Derren Brown show. So it couldnt have been recorded then, Nobody saw what allegedly happened. So the person who eventually got chosen was totally random and DB had no control over this. And then remember that 90% of that audience booked tickets with a credit card. You are using an out of date browser. 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). Would love to hear your theory about how the final peice was done. This review refers to the October 2021 touring production of Derren Browns Showman. They wouldn't have felt it or remembered it when they came round. In our show tonight he "didn't press hard enough" too and had a light "5" on there. 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. It was a life changing time in history which will live with us forever. Does anyone remember a TV series from the late 60s where a man goes for walks with his talking house and dustbin. by Stephi Wild Jul. No, i, But first coffee. Each and everyone of us cheered and applauded at every appropriate moment of this story he took us on. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. 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. I always thought I was someone who was quite hard to hypnotise so was utterly shocked to find that I might have been. W. It was filmed in the 1st blackout of the 1st card trick :), Saw the show in Liverpool and Im a mentalist myself, really enjoyed it and I too noticed a couple of things. 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. PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SHOWMAN. 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. So now they have two pieces of footage. https://www.reddit.com/r/derrenbrown/comments/viwx4j/derren_brown_showman_the_ending_explained_in/. This didnt happen. I will say. So thought he deserved a as spoiler free wirte up as I could. Spoiler alert Ultimately, he is a fantastic entertainer, and an expert in reading human behaviour and . 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'll inbox you conclusion we came too, as I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. Its that setting which is so well suited to seeing Derren live, particularly in Showman. It worked on me though, I didn't see a thing. 1. The cameraman gets a good look at this, we can all see it. It does make the most sense but its still a major trick to pull off by moving all that stuff around in such a short amount of time. The sleeves being rolled up is just another little detail that makes us reject that it's happening now, though of course he has plenty of time to roll them back down and back up between appearances. The content of SHOWMAN remains a closely guarded secret, but if youve seen him before, you know youre in for a powerhouse treat! My friend and the stranger on the other side of me didnt see the running or hear it at all, they thought I was winding them up! In this brand new podcast series, Derren Brown explores the many worries and pressures we all experience in modern life and how we can find meaningful ways to manage them better. Just got back from the Edinburgh show and was going to ask the same thing. 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. 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. All theatres have them,. Maybe I should go again and secretly film when I get backstage. 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. The problem is that the wooden box wasnt suspendes until the 3rd trick. But I won't post public Spoilers. Its best just to go with the flow and enjoy a master at work. Actually, he most certainly does not. There is no other explanation. The UK Tour continues until October 2022 For full dates and ticket purchases, check out Derren Brown: Showman. KindEnvironment5098 5 mo. Anyone got any theories? went to see the show last night. Do women just always think about dying their hair? As I said, were not going to include any spoilers here. And as we were to discover, Covid was going to have a profound effect not just on the scheduling but the contents of the show, too. 2nd trick, he walks across and puts it in on the floor. DERREN BROWN RETURNS TO THE WEST END STAGE! He is all of those things, but actually so much more. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I think the 50% thing was intentionally confusing. (Showman: Light Spoilers) Laura Masters 597 subscribers Subscribe 441 views 5 months ago On 28th July 2022, I saw Derren Brown perform. Youll thank us for that. Feel free to Ama about the experience and I'll try answer best I can from what Derren has let me remember. But actually, it can be equally challenging for us in the audience too. Cookie Notice What a shitty thread. They wouldn't have been aware of it, of course, being "under" Derren's spell.Dice trick:I held the dice and it felt a bit heavily than I felt it ought to be. I sat in that chair for a good while. Yeah, the table trick is pretty straightforward, and old school. I don't think it will be cut. 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". He is a multi-award winning performer, part magician, illusionist and mind reader, or maybe even someone who is very skilled at tricking our minds. 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. 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. Derren Brown in Showman 2021/2022. He relies completely on us to allow him to take us on the journey with him. We need to look back at her movements from the moment she was chosen to go on stage. The set may be relatively minimal, and the lighting dim at times, but what is projected from it is truly awesome. Because as far as the audience are concerned, their segment of the show is finished. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre,. He most definitely didnt film it with me during the intermission. Tickets are available at www.atgtickets.com. The unofficial pub capital of the world. 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. The second curtain is the fire curtain. He's a mind reader so he could find out and I would face legal consequences. I have a good guess at how the third time is done. Very strange this, why didn't they just return to their seats? A look back at Derren Brown's most inexplicable tricks and stunts. To find a way to better connect with family and friends, and indeed with ourselves. How then did lots of people in the crowd see it happen in the moment? If you put the two cards next to each other there will be small discrepancies, but that's irrelevant. There's also a possibility that the card never went into the card box in the first place, and DB used sleight of hand to make it appear the card had gone in. Before he was known at all, I saw him perform close-up magic to a handful of people, me being one of them. Production name Derren Brown: Showman. Or coffee? However. Derren doesnt claim to possess any supernatural powers and his acts are often designed to expose the methods of those who do. I may have set my expectations too high and in some ways the show was more predictable than I had anticipated. I've seen a woman - totally convinced of her own genuineness - do a similar thing on herself! Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Who said you, The smell of old books hits you as soon as you str, Dublin. This makes sense to me. Excellent show would recommend everyone sees it! My theory: because 1 of these 3 people (the playing card person) was still needed by DB. If anyone wants to know my theory then please PM me. 5 seconds later, lights back on, audience amazed by what they've just seen. The "box watcher" wasnt there, but he knew exactly where they would be standing, so he could act as though there was a person there to wave at etc, then its an easy edit job to splice her/him in. He paints vivd pictures with his words, and its those images that stick, perhaps to be recalled later. 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.". 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 ?? 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. 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. Then, as his career progressed, I was lucky to catch him at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. I'm fairly sure our guy got an interval. My guess is that it was an e-ink display and a stagehand wirelessly transmitted the numbers onto the board after my serial number had been shown on the big screen. Opening 4 March at King's Theatre, Glasgow, SHOWMAN will tour the UK and Ireland until 29 October 2022. 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 think thats enough hints. Yes, I've been to see it - it was fantastic - but why would you do something like this when one of the first things Derren asks at the beginning of the show is specifically not to talk about it, because it ruins the experience for other people? 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 . I was sitting in row 3 and could see everything during the two blackouts. 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 how he could of done it so much better the entire way through. I kinda want to go again and film it to see if its real. I saw you at the show last night! The sparse set and dim lighting are designed to give off an air of mystery. Then for the big moment. I really don't think this other theory would hold up to scrutiny but I did wonder if it was being broadcast live to the stage? 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. 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 . I got brought up on stage for the objects bit, real bucket list moment - what an amazing show . and our I received complimentary tickets to this event. A jaw-dropping, mind-boggling experience. info@southwaleslife.com, Derren Brown: Showman Our Spoiler-Free Opening Night Review, Matthew Bournes Nutcracker! Be sure to subscribe and catch all the amazing moments of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection \u0026 showmanship! So does Derren feel we are suckers as Barnum would happily say? At this point DB says sorry it needs to be someone who wasn't up on stage earlier on, and instructs her to throw the Frisbee to someone else. I think they then spliced the two videos together during the period between the trick and the video reveal. He comes out to a crowd of eager fans who expect to be blown-away, astounded, gob-smacked, or whichever cliche you care to throw into the mix. Just from knowing a little more about what happens to the person on stage. You can pay a visit HERE if youd like to check. And she's the one who wanted to go see him in the first place. You are right. Starts 09/12/2022. He didn't get me to put on the blindfold until after he gave me the card, and they filmed me writing the whole time (I think, lol) but Derren did instruct me to keep adding more numbers at the top, bottom etc until he was satisfied. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. They didnt appear again for a good 10 minutes. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Secondly, she couldn't remember her own name, and she was called up to the bottom of the steps along with 10 other people. There only one part of my experience I'm convinced was faked but only in a very certain way. The answer must be, because something has already happened with that person which means the big reveal needs them back on stage for act 2. Showman is, at its heart, a show about how the. Even in our most challenging times we can find meaning and grow. That's exactly what DB wants us to believe. As far as we can all see, what we are watching is one video clip, with all three people on stage at the same time. 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. I can't remember how much of the actual architecture is in the shot to begin with but if he just needs a large black floor and his table then it could work. Venue Apollo Theatre. 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. 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 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. The new person was there and the box was swinging in the video, which gave it the credibility to suggest it happened when we saw it, but my thoughts are that it was two separate videos filmed at two different times then edited. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. Its a trick, its always a trick with Derren, To rule out the potential that he hypnotised the audience, someone needs to watch the show again and look at the second hand on their watch when Derren counts 1,2 and then see if it magically moves 15 seconds, or if it simply carries on as normal. Care to point me in the right direction regarding the thumb tip? He was just staying with them while DB finished act 1. As I sat there looking at Derren and trying to gauge the audience reaction, I wondered how I was going to describe him to you. 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. I have no inside knowledge so my theory is completely based on what I saw last night. In my show lots of people put their hands up saying they saw it? Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The video was pre-recorded during the intermission, behind the heavy curtain. He is warm, charismatic and builds a rapport, careful not to make anyone in the auditorium feel uncomfortable. Subscribe For More Derren Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialDerrenDerren Brown is a British mentalist, illusionist and author. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did pal. And that it isn't difficult to get information about people once you have their name, address, credit card details and whatnot. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Or maybe were all under some kind of mass hypnotic spell. I'm pretty sure it was filmed during the 1st blackout of the card trick where he told the card trick audience member that they reached across the table and put a card in the box. But such is the talent of Brown that even I was baffled at times by what I had witnessed. I also (and this may be my imagination, it was loud up there!) If you can, get to a venue and grab some seats, the trip will be worth every mile of your hard earned fuel. Yeah my guess is. Mega spoilers here.Coin trick: Dice trick: Serial number trick: envelope on stage, there was nothing else in there (so forget dividers/flaps/duplicate notes or anything like that). You're almost right. Learn how your comment data is processed. And thats what Derren does best. 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. There are flashes of red light and a partial blackout, I would estimate for between 3 and 5 seconds, no more. In fact he even told us from the stage, not to give reveal anything. But I'd take a pretty educated guess I'm right. A small venue, which hid nothing from the audience. I always love the tv specials he does but Ive never seen him live! I feel like he might have skipped 3-4 and filmed the video during the interval. The stage curtains including a large heavy safety curtain come down obscuring the view of the stage. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. So therefore, what we see in that video at the end DID happen. 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 . Bounty hunter Sharkey tracks criminals across the galaxy in his converted, rocket-powered ice-cream truck -- with help from his 10-year-old partner. And the Showman left many guests at the Alex Theatres Press Night scratching their heads in awe and wonder. Or art. Any idea how the name for the teddy bear and the dad comments appear on the badge? Like the OP, I performed a similar function at yesterday's matine performance. 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. For just over two hours this consummate professional has the audience in the palm of his hand. As part of a whopping 155-venue world tour, SHOWMAN will be performing seven shows a week between December 2022 and March 2023. 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. Dont expect a great big flashy, glitzy set, this is Derren Brown not David Copperfield. 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