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.| 17 Dec 22 to 28 Jan 23 | Hampstead Theatre Inner London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive |
