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I think my vision of what I want is somewhat different to what is currantly in the "plays", for example in the scene I mentioned before, the love interest dies - in my head the scene that follows is her magically talented lover holding a private funeral, putting her limp body on a pire and setting it alight, before the pire and coffin rise into the air and disappear (a kind of updated Ashra, but with flames to instantly destroy the box in mid air).

Its all an academic question really, as I doubt I will ever do anything like this - but its interest to think...


Is there ANYTHING a stage magician cannot do?

be taken seriously whilst wearing leather trousers?

sleightlycrazy wrote:

kolm wrote:Sadly it looks like it's over and it isn't available on DVD

Wrong!

It IS out on DVD with a special edition softcover copy of the play. I watched it a good 5 times so far and memorized my favorite parts! (often times, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence)

http://www.amazon.com/Macbeth-DVD-Folge ... 023&sr=8-1

Enjoy!

Oh my, that's fantastic - it's even out in the UK. For once I'm amazingly pleased to have been proved wrong

Thank you very much

Eshly wrote:I think my vision of what I want is somewhat different to what is currantly in the "plays", for example in the scene I mentioned before, the love interest dies - in my head the scene that follows is her magically talented lover holding a private funeral, putting her limp body on a pire and setting it alight, before the pire and coffin rise into the air and disappear (a kind of updated Ashra, but with flames to instantly destroy the box in mid air).

Its all an academic question really, as I doubt I will ever do anything like this - but its interest to think...


Is there ANYTHING a stage magician cannot do?

Sounds exactly the same to me.

Im really interested in that MacBeth adaptation by Teller. By a bizarre coincidence I am studying adaptations of MacBeth at uni this semester. I think I've just found what I'll be writing my paper on

IAIN wrote:be taken seriously whilst wearing leather trousers?

brilliant!

The reason you don't get plays with big stage illusions in them is because they would be to the detriment of the play. There are hundreds of shows that use/have used magic techniques, some more overtly than others, but in the context of a play you don't want to derail the plot just to make a box vanish.

It's a similar concept to physical theatre - movement and dance in a play should add something to the piece, not be tacked on for the benefit of the dancers in the audience.

The recent West End run of Carrie's War included a stage illusion that was performed by the lead (BSME's own Sarah Edwardson) and designed by Nick Einhorn. The illusion was not necessary for the plot but added to the magical atmosphere.