Tuesday, 2. June 2009
Topic: LOST FOUND - on June 2, 2009 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
Derren Brown: mind over magic
The illusionist baffles and delights audiences with his mind games, but he wonders if this really what a grown-up should be doing.
"I’m always slightly beset by embarrassment about being a magician,” whispers Derren Brown, the most successful magician we’ve had since Paul Daniels fever gripped the nation three decades ago. Right now, another kind of fever is gripping Brown: in a dim dressing-room in Oxford, where his latest stage show has stopped off en route to the West End, he is surrounded by vials of bubbling potions and healing magic powders. Well, OK, bottles of Benylin and sachets of Lemsip. He’s lost his voice. He’s looking pale. Can the show go on?
