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2005–2006

Derren’s second live stage show, Something Wicked This Way Comes, toured the UK following a sell-out run in the West End. The tour began in March 2005 at the Cambridge Theatre and finished in May at the Hammersmith Apollo. The run was then extended into 2006 and was filmed for television at the Old Vic Theatre in June 2006. Something Wicked This Way Comes was a sell-out tour nationwide and culminated in Derren winning the prestigious 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment Show.

The show was co-written and directed by his long-term collaborator Andy Nyman.

‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Reviews:

“His greatest achievement is in taking the fusty world of magic and dragging it by its faded velvet lapels into the 21st century. For in many ways Brown is an old-fashioned illusionist, something to which both his set – with its vaudeville atmosphere – and his patter attests, but, by giving his tricks the veneer of science and psychology, he makes them appeal to a modern, and supposedly more savvy, audience.”

Full Review in The Stage.

“How wonderful that there are still people around who’ll put in the hours of thought and hard slog so that people like me can simply sit back and lap it all up without being blinded by fire and brimstone and a vast array of visible trickery. How wonderful that there are still those who rely on performance rather than props, on delivery rather than pure end-result. How marvellous to enjoy a mere handful of props and, to be crude, a truckload of talent.”

Full Review in Magicweek.

The recording of this show is available to buy on DVD in our Store and you can view a clip from it here.