Less Than All-Knowing

People do tend to say to me ‘You must know how it's done,’ or ‘This probably isn't very exciting for you,’ if I ever see magic on TV or in the real world. I completely understand why. I have performed, professionally at hundreds of events for all ages and all different audiences and it's safe to say that I have learned a lot about magic and the allied arts along the way.

But I don't know everything.

I watched The Evansons, a two person mind-reading act at the 2020 Blackpool Magic Convention.

The act is that the husband goes into the crowd and holds something, perhaps a wallet, borrowed from an audience member. His wife, onstage, eyes closed/facing away easily name’s the colour, style and material of the wallet. Then she goes further and tells us details about the audience members drivers licence which is inside the wallet. And it escalates even more from there.

If you get a chance to see them live, do it. I thought it was a great piece of theatre and I have no idea how it was done. I jokingly day ‘It's ventriloquism. The husband imitates her voice, so he can look at the items then it sounds like she's calling them out,’ but that's definitely not the case.

There are ways and means I do know of achieving the results the Evansons did, but it's plain to see in their act, that none of those ways are used here.

When I do witness something like this, whether it's this, a card trick, a vanish, a teleportation or something else, I get a little envious of how the performer has pulled it off, I get really happy that I get to experience that feeling of wonder, and in those moments,I genuinely believe that magic is real!