Showman brings illusionist Derren Brown back on stage in Nottingham
The multi-award-winning master of mind control and illusion Derren Brown is back with his first new stage tour in six years.
Showman comes to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, from Tuesday to Saturday, June 18.
The content of Showman remains a closely-guarded secret but Derren has revealed: “The heart of the show is about remembering what’s important. Like how the very things that we find most isolating in life — our fears and difficulties — actually connect us. Framed with what I think will be some extraordinary demonstrations of my voodoo.
“Strangely, the show pre-Covid was, at its heart, about how the tough things in life that we feel isolate us, tend in fact to bring us together, and be the very things that we share. And then lockdown happened, which was a strangely literal playing out of that theme. So although the benefit of extra time has allowed us to re-work the show a little and change some aspects of it, its heart has remained the same”.
Derren’s live shows have won him two Olivier Awards — for Something Wicked This Way Comes and Svengali.