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.
Archive :: production:T01989001141, play:S1298737586, venue:V202
Production details
Downstairs
Special Performances
- 25 Jan 23 Captioned
- 26 Jan 23 Captioned