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Last night in my show at the Clifftown Theatre in Southend, I used the Benedict Box.

This what the audience experienced.

In a series of routines about journeys, I introduce the idea of what one needs to travel and explain that fundamentally, we need a credit card, some cash, a mobile phone, and a passport. Images for each of these are projected on a large screen behind me.

I walk into the audience with the box, remove the lid and distribute pencils and differently coloured slips of paper to about 15-18 people. Those with blue slips write down four digits from their credit card, those with green slips write down four digits from their mobile phone, and those with yellow slips write down four digits from the serial number on a note. The slips are collected in the box, the lid is placed on top, and the whole box is given to a participant who is then asked to join me on stage.

She brings the box on stage, takes the lid off, and dumps the contents of the box onto the table. She then selects one slip of each colour and tells me the number on each. These are added and the total is a very large number that happens to be my birthdate, which has been in plain view on the scan of my passport projected behind me the whole time. In the context of the previous routines and narrative, this creates a nice finish and complements theings from the first set.

The handling of the box is very fair and in my view fairer than other boxes I have used. The finish fits my set perefectly.

Best wishes

Dr T

Very nice!!!

For those who have been asking.

Twas like a proud parent watching it lol x

E x

Having just received one of these (see photos 22 and 23 on the Facebookj link) I'm honoured to pay tribute to the work involved in producing the boxes, Hand built props are not very common and good hand built props even rarer so hearty congratulations are in order. As an amateur woodworker myself, I can see that there's a lot of work in the finish and not just one swift coat of woodstain, it looks, and smells, like an old and well loved item, exactly the sort of thing I'd expect to find on Grandma's sideboard containing little mementoes of family activities and accomplishments, a baby's first milk tooth, perhaps a locket or part of a broken bracelet bought for her by a son or daughter, a lock of hair and maybe a photo of the young man she loved but who went to war and never returned. All that and more in a small box. And then there's all the effects and reveals possible, it may be trite but the uses of these boxes are really limited only by your imagination.

And to clarify ... Mr mandrake purchased the Brain box, not the benedict lol


Thanks for the kind words though xxx

I hope the brain box mandrake purchased had a new brain in it then - cos it sounds like he needs it (hee hee)

This what happens when you have more than one browser open showing TM and juggling one version against the other. Also, two large G&Ts are not always good at lunchtime.....

Benedict boxes are now available to buy direct from the Website. www.smokeandmirrorsuk.co.uk

This little thing has become our best-seller, and with so many nice peeps saying nice things about it, im genuinely thankful for all the support !

Thanks everyone.

Evie xxx