Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Rina Fatania, Bettry Jones, David Langham, Norah Lopez-Holden, Brian Martin, Kwaku Mills

Creatives/Company

Author: Alexis Michalik
Presented by(s): Hampstead Downstairs, Celia Atkin
Director(s): Tom Jackson, Sam Edmunds (assistant)
Translation: Waleed Akhtar
Design: Simon Kenny
Sound: Yvonne Gilbert