The deeply lovely legend Peter Clifford, who many of you will remember from The Heist (pretend scientist for the Milgram Experiment) or The Devil’s Picturebook, is hosting four nights of magic at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Some of you will know that this is where I performed my first full stage show. This studio theatre is famous for maintaining a superb standard of production, and aside from Peter’s nights, the annual Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory stagings are some of the best you’ll see in the country, often starring Peter himself. Last year they invited Jonathan Miller to direct Hamlet, which, with the faultless Jamie Ballard in the title role (Jamie, a good friend, will also be in Black Death with Andy Nyman) was every bit as good as any of the more highly publicised productions.
So, Peter’s Friends will bring together the best of Britain’s magicians for four Sunday nights: the details of each programme yet to be confirmed but he promises ‘mentalism, gambling cons, street magic and bamboozling outright trickery’. The dates are:
Sunday 28th June
Sunday 26th July
Sunday 27th September
Sunday 25th October
At The Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Rd, Bristol: box office 0117 902 0344.
It’s really worth making sure you secure tickets for these.
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Don´t you all know eachother…lovely to see the train of network going from magicians-land to the latest productions…:-)
26th July? My 18th…would be quite fun but Bristol is a loooong way to go
unfortunately i’m too far away ;(
Is this just a Bristol thing, or is he planning on taking this elsewhere? I’m literally miles away from Bristol and – the Enigma tour notwithstanding – there’s never any decent magic on in Manchester. All we have is crackheads in white jeans pretending to be those rubbish street statues and lots of bands pretending to be Oasis.
Hm .. the best of britain’s magicians …. who would that be ..?
For a short moment I thought it was Peter Powers in that picture … ehehehe …
Although it indeed may be wise to make sure to secure tickets (to secure tickets … what an expression ..) .. I for some reason will not secure them .. Í’m a dare devil .. I’ll just march in on one of the evenings … BEWARE .. completely drunk .. not misbehaving .. but snorring loudly … ehehehe …. nah, bristol is just 2 miles too far from my home .. I like sleeping in my own bed .. Yes, I know .. lots of beds to erm .. park myself in I guess around there .. but I promised I’d not harm men anymore .. the black widow retired .. for the time being that is .. when opportunity will pop up I might forget about this promise .. memory is such stretchfull thing ..
let the bamboozling begin! woop! woop!
i used to work in a tobacco factory. it was a right drag.
unfortunately we’re too far away too.
Blah…what’s this thing with Bristol? You should all come to Finland!
I thought the picture was one of the chuckle brothers, and is there any chance of this coming eastward, somewhere like…… now let me think Norwich!!!
Well if the deeply lovely (and talented) DB recommends these performers they must be good
Maybe I’ll look into making the trip over the bridge from south wales for an evening of amazement. Didn’t DB do a promo photo like the one above? So who’s flattering who?!