There is something magical about being a child. Everything is so full of wonder because you don’t know anything, a blank canvas to use your imagination to put explanation to the unexplainable. Or how to quickly explain how the lamp fell and the wild story to get yourself out of trouble, for me purple goblins were always trying to get me in trouble and the elaborate plans they would concoct just so I couldn’t go outside and play. Now the simplest wonders to a small child don’t even register to a typical adult either due to daily stresses or their phones stealing from the imagination that come from looking at the world with curious eyes.
Be prepared to look at the world again with wonder and amazement as Champions of Magic pique your curiosity on just what happened between the performer and your lying eyes.
Sit back as the performers bend reality, distort the laws of physics fusing their dynamic skills in grand scale magic, an elegance for spectacle and undeniable mastery of showmanship.
This interactive, high-energy show is sure to entertain the entire family. Combining their signature humor with groundbreaking magic, the world’s only team of illusionists present a brand-new production unlike anything that has come before.
YOUNG & STRANGE (UK)
Young & Strange started their journey together at 8 years old when their childhood friendship was cemented with a common interest in all things magic. They spent their teenage years attempting, and failing, to make Las Vegas style illusions with cardboard and tape. With little money, they were forced to innovate, creating original illusions and magic tricks.
LIBERTY LARSEN (USA)
Liberty Larsen is a fourth-generation magician of the Larsen family, the creators of the Magic Castle™. Liberty grew up fully immersed in the world of magic, with the privilege of watching the best magicians in the world share their love for the craft. Over the years she carved out her own distinct style, with performances ranging from the poetic and enchanted to the mischievously absurd.
FERNANDO VELASCO (MEXICO/USA)
Fernando was 11 years old when his father’s job in the restaurant of the Magic Castle gave him an inside look into the world of illusion. Fernando is pushing the boundaries of what a young escapologist can do, and in 2017 became the youngest performer in the world to present his version of ‘Houdini’s Water Torture Cell’ which saw him handcuffed and padlocked upside-down in a sealed 6ft tank of water.
As a child and even now, nothing can make me wonder for longer than trying to figure out what did I just witness? If you like to push your brain’s CPU and like a challenge, why don’t you watch a show and witness their innovatively spectacular illusions and see if you can figure out just exactly, how did they do it?
Luckily for them we don’t believe in witchcraft and sorcery anymore just entertainment!
Brian Smith
bsmith288@my.bcit.ca