Performance

Venue	Hampstead Theatre
	Other spaces: Michael Frayn Space/Hampstead Downstairs
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	17th December 2022
Opened	4th January 2023
To	28th January 2023
When	19:45. Sat Mats 14:45 (from Dec 24). Thu Mats 14:45 (from Dec 29). Jan 4 at 19:00
What is currently on at Hampstead Theatre (V202)

The Art of Illusion

T01989001141
In 1984, as the France vs Yugoslavia match unfolds on TV, a man meets a woman in a Parisian café. He is returning a bag that she lost in the metro, but he doesn't tell her he stole it... Instead, he tells her the story of Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, watchmaker, inventor, and master magician of the 19th century. Together they set out to find a vanished theatre beneath a bank vault in the Boulevard des Italiens, to break into a museum in the Trocadero, to uncover the mystery of the Mechanical Turk, to witness the birth of the kinetograph... and to delve ever deeper into the Art of Illusion.

Author

Alexis Michalik

Archive :: production:T01989001141, play:S1298737586, venue:V202

Production details

Downstairs

Special Performances

25 Jan 23 Captioned
26 Jan 23 Captioned

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Presented by	Hampstead Downstairs
Presented by	Celia Atkin
Director	Tom Jackson
Translation	Waleed Akhtar
Design	Simon Kenny
Sound	Yvonne Gilbert
Director	Sam Edmunds (assistant)
Performer	Rina Fatania
Performer	Bettry Jones
Performer	David Langham
Performer	Norah Lopez-Holden
Performer	Brian Martin
Performer	Kwaku Mills

CORONAVIRUS: All UK venues closed on 16th March 2020, restrictions were lifted on 19th July 2021. Please note that iUKTDb archive listings between March 2020 and July 2021 may not be accurate as we did not receive details of all rescheduled and cancelled shows.