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11th May 2022
05:06pm BST

The magic trick at play is two-fold: (1) We're always keeping an eye on how the trick they're about to perform is going to go hilariously wrong, and (2) the trick itself going wrong is itself another trick.
For example, the old classic of sawing a lady in half: you can probably imagine how that trick is going to go wrong in the hands of these particular magicians, but the way that the trick goes wrong is so shocking that your brain barely has time to register that they've pulled off an even more impressive sleight of hand.
That applies to a lot of other old-school tricks you'll have seen done a million times before, but the unique spin being that they very purposefully go awry, usually resulting in some shocking violence that came as a welcome surprise.
There is a sense of barely-held-together desperation running through the entire thing that makes it zip by hilariously, and if this particular gag didn't work for you, don't worry, there's another on the way just a few seconds from now.
Magic Goes Wrong will be performed at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre until Saturday, 14 May.
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