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Derren Brown - Showman

Derren brown, master of mind-control and psychological illusion returns to amaze, astonish and enthral audiences in edinburgh with his brand new show, showman.

About Derren Brown - Showman

The multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, is at his very best on stage. His one-man shows have received wide critical acclaim and more Olivier wins and nominations than any other in history! Now with his first brand new theatre show in six years, Derren Brown returns to astonish and amaze audiences up and down the country. The content of Showman remains a closely-guarded secret, but if you’ve seen him before, you know you’re in for a powerhouse treat! "All I can reveal is that the show will ultimately be about you, the audience member, because that’s what I find most interesting. There are places I’d like to take the audience where we haven’t been before. I always aim to have it deliver more than you'd expect. I’m excited to be at the starting point of that process. Getting it on the road will be my favourite part of the year."

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December 2022

• Fri 9 Dec ➙ Sat 18 Mar London, Apollo Shaftesbury Derren Brown - Showman

October 2022

• Tue 25 Oct ➙ Sat 29 Oct Northampton, Royal & Derngate Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 18 Oct ➙ Sat 22 Oct Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton Globe Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 11 Oct ➙ Sat 15 Oct Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 4 Oct ➙ Sat 8 Oct New Theatre Oxford Derren Brown - Showman

September 2022

• Tue 27 Sep ➙ Sat 1 Oct Ipswich, Regent Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 13 Sep ➙ Sat 17 Sep Newcastle upon Tyne, Theatre Royal Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 6 Sep ➙ Sat 10 Sep Birmingham, The Alexandra Theatre Derren Brown - Showman

August 2022

• Tue 30 Aug ➙ Sat 3 Sep Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 23 Aug ➙ Sat 27 Aug Leeds Grand Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 16 Aug ➙ Sat 20 Aug Bournemouth Pavilion Derren Brown - Showman
• Mon 8 Aug ➙ Sun 14 Aug Dartford, Orchard Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 26 Jul ➙ Sat 30 Jul Southampton, Mayflower Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 19 Jul ➙ Sat 23 Jul Milton Keynes Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 5 Jul ➙ Sat 16 Jul Salford, The Lowry Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 21 Jun ➙ Sat 25 Jun Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 14 Jun ➙ Sat 18 Jun Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 7 Jun ➙ Sat 11 Jun Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 31 May ➙ Sat 4 Jun Liverpool Empire Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 24 May ➙ Sat 28 May The Bristol Hippodrome Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 10 May ➙ Sat 14 May Aberdeen, His Majesty's Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 3 May ➙ Sat 7 May Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 26 Apr ➙ Sat 30 Apr Derry, Millennium Forum Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 19 Apr ➙ Sat 23 Apr Belfast, Grand Opera House Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 29 Mar ➙ Sat 2 Apr Cardiff, New Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 22 Mar ➙ Sat 26 Mar Norwich, Theatre Royal Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 15 Mar ➙ Sat 19 Mar High Wycombe, Swan Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Fri 4 Mar ➙ Sat 12 Mar Glasgow, Kings Theatre Derren Brown - Showman

November 2021

• Tue 9 Nov ➙ Sat 13 Nov Stoke-on-Trent, Regent Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Thu 4 Nov ➙ Sat 6 Nov Eastbourne, Congress Theatre Derren Brown - Showman

October 2021

• Tue 26 Oct ➙ Sat 30 Oct Birmingham, The Alexandra Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 19 Oct ➙ Sat 23 Oct Leicester, Curve Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 5 Oct ➙ Sat 9 Oct Bradford, Alhambra Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Fri 1 Oct ➙ Sat 2 Oct Blackpool Winter Gardens Derren Brown - Showman

September 2021

• Tue 21 Sep ➙ Sat 25 Sep Hull New Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 14 Sep ➙ Sat 18 Sep Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 7 Sep ➙ Sat 11 Sep Sunderland Empire Derren Brown - Showman

August 2021

• Sat 28 Aug ➙ Sat 4 Sep Plymouth, Theatre Royal Derren Brown - Showman

September 2020

• Mon 7 Sep ➙ Sun 13 Sep Dartford, Orchard Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 1 Sep ➙ Sat 5 Sep Ipswich, Regent Theatre Derren Brown - Showman

August 2020

• Tue 25 Aug ➙ Sat 29 Aug Bournemouth Pavilion Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 18 Aug ➙ Sat 22 Aug Leeds Grand Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 4 Aug ➙ Sat 8 Aug Sunderland Empire Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 28 Jul ➙ Sat 1 Aug Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 21 Jul ➙ Sat 25 Jul Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 14 Jul ➙ Sat 18 Jul Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 30 Jun ➙ Sat 11 Jul Salford, The Lowry Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 23 Jun ➙ Sat 27 Jun Glasgow, Kings Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 16 Jun ➙ Sat 20 Jun New Theatre Oxford Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 2 Jun ➙ Sat 6 Jun Hull New Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 26 May ➙ Sat 30 May Leeds Grand Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 19 May ➙ Sat 23 May Norwich, Theatre Royal Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 12 May ➙ Sat 16 May Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 5 May ➙ Sat 9 May Milton Keynes Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 21 Apr ➙ Sat 25 Apr Plymouth, Theatre Royal Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 14 Apr ➙ Sat 18 Apr Bournemouth Pavilion Derren Brown - Showman
• Tue 7 Apr ➙ Sat 11 Apr Ipswich, Regent Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Fri 27 Mar ➙ Sat 4 Apr Dartford, Orchard Theatre Derren Brown - Showman
• Mon 2 Jul ➙ Thu 5 Jul Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Derren Brown
• Tue 26 Jun ➙ Sat 30 Jun Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 19 Jun ➙ Sat 23 Jun Norwich, Theatre Royal Derren Brown
• Fri 15 Jun ➙ Sat 16 Jun Dartford, Orchard Theatre Derren Brown
• Mon 11 Jun ➙ Wed 13 Jun Bournemouth Pavilion Derren Brown
• Tue 5 Jun ➙ Sat 9 Jun Glasgow, Theatre Royal Derren Brown
• Mon 28 May ➙ Thu 31 May Cork City, Cork Opera House Derren Brown
• Tue 22 May ➙ Sat 26 May Belfast, Grand Opera House Derren Brown
• Tue 15 May ➙ Sat 19 May Dublin, Gaiety Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 8 May ➙ Sat 12 May Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre Derren Brown
• Tue 24 Apr ➙ Sat 28 Apr Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Derren Brown
• Tue 17 Apr ➙ Sat 21 Apr Hull New Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 10 Apr ➙ Sat 14 Apr Eastbourne, Devonshire Park Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 3 Apr ➙ Sat 7 Apr Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre Derren Brown

October 2017

• Sat 21 Oct Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown
• Fri 20 Oct Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown
• Thu 19 Oct Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown

September 2017

• Mon 11 Sep ➙ Sat 14 Oct London, Playhouse Theatre Derren Brown
• Sat 9 Sep New Theatre Oxford Derren Brown
• Fri 8 Sep New Theatre Oxford Derren Brown
• Wed 6 Sep Southampton, Mayflower Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 5 Sep Southampton, Mayflower Theatre Derren Brown
• Mon 4 Sep Southampton, Mayflower Theatre Derren Brown
• Sat 2 Sep Blackpool, Grand Theatre Derren Brown
• Fri 1 Sep Blackpool, Grand Theatre Derren Brown

August 2017

• Thu 31 Aug Blackpool, Grand Theatre Derren Brown
• Wed 30 Aug Buxton Opera House Derren Brown
• Tue 29 Aug Buxton Opera House Derren Brown
• Mon 28 Aug Buxton Opera House Derren Brown
• Sat 26 Aug Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre Derren Brown
• Fri 25 Aug Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre Derren Brown
• Thu 24 Aug Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre Derren Brown
• Wed 23 Aug Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown
• Tue 22 Aug Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown
• Mon 21 Aug Woking, New Victoria Theatre Derren Brown
• Sat 19 Aug Cambridge Corn Exchange Derren Brown
• Fri 18 Aug Cambridge Corn Exchange Derren Brown
• Tue 15 Aug Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Derren Brown
• Mon 14 Aug Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Derren Brown
• Sat 12 Aug Carlisle, The Sands Centre Derren Brown
• Fri 11 Aug Carlisle, The Sands Centre Derren Brown
• Wed 9 Aug Newcastle upon Tyne, Theatre Royal Derren Brown

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Derren Brown adds Edinburgh dates

Showman tour to play six perfs at playhouse.

Illusionist and psychological manipulator Darren Brown has added six performances at the Edinburgh Playhouse to the eight month UK tour of his latest show, Showman , with tickets to his May 2022 shows now on sale . 

Delayed because of the pandemic, the tour kicks off with ten postponed dates this Autumn. It restarts in March 2022 with dates at the Glasgow King’s (March 8 – 12, tickets here ), Edinburgh Playhouse (May 3 – 7, tickets here ) and His Majesty’s Aberdeen (May 10 – 14, tickets here ), before finishing up in Northampton in October.

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Having found fame on the TV with his inventive manipulations and de-bunkings, Brown is at his best live on stage. Indeed, his live shows have won him two Oliviers – for Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006) and Svengali (2012) and he has received more Olivier nominations and wins than any other one-man show in theatre history.

Showman is Brown’s first brand new theatre show in six years. Announcing the new dates he said: “2022 will be the biggest tour I’ve done in 20 years. It’s exciting and daunting and I’m considering a bigger suitcase. Maybe even a four-wheeler. It’s madness and I can’t wait.”

Speaking of the show itself, before the pandemic, he said: “the heart of the show is about remembering what’s important. Like how the very things that we find most isolating in life – our fears and difficulties – actually connect us. Framed with what I think will be some extraordinary demonstrations of my voodoo.”

The resulting show will have mutated and developed over the last 18 months. Brown adds: “ All I can reveal at this point is that the show will ultimately be about you, the audience member, because that’s what I find most interesting.

more than you’d expect

“There are places I’d like to take you where we haven’t been before. I always aim to have it deliver more than you’d expect. I’m excited to be at the starting point of that process. Getting it on the road will be my favourite part of the year.”

Brown’s latest book, A Book of Secrets , is published in September 2021. According to the blurb, in it “he considers the value of difficulty in our lives while reflecting on his own experiences of challenges and change. Perhaps it is in those times when we are forced to cope with adversity that we find the most meaningful rewards.

“As he navigates middle age, love and small talk, he dispenses with self-help platitudes and wonders if perhaps we need to more comfortably embrace uncertainty. Is anxiety in fact a pointer for growth?”

Listings & Links

Derren Brown: Showman Glasgow King’s , 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN Tue 8 – Sat 12 March 2022 Evenings Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Matinee Sat: 2.30pm Tickets and details:  Book here .

Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA Tue 3– Sat 7 May 2022 Evenings: Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Mat Sat: 2.30pm. Tickets and details:  Book here .

His Majesty’s Theatre , Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, AB25 1GL Tue 10 – Sat 14 May 2022 Evenings: Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Mat Sat: 2.30pm. Tickets and details:  Book here .

Website: https://derrenbrown.co.uk/shows/showman/

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Derren Brown: Showman

British illusionist wows audience with his most personal show to date.

As we take our seats in Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre for Derren Brown ’s Showman , a nervous excitement fills the room. It’s been five years since Brown toured, and expectations are perhaps a little too high. Might his ability to render audiences speechless have lessened over time? Will this latest show be just as spellbinding as the others? Will our jaws drop in awe? 1,400 people want to know.

There is a lot to admire about the British illusionist. Ever since he made his TV debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control 20 years ago, he’s been stunning audiences with his mind-boggling tricks. But it’s not just his talent for magic and psychological techniques that captivate crowds; Brown is a master of misdirection, as well as being endlessly charming and insanely smart too – no wonder he’s been banned from casinos across the UK.

The show starts and the jaw dropping awe begins. During the show, Brown bans the audience from disclosing any details of the show. And yes, that includes reviewers too. He’s very polite about it, but he’s also firm. He’s right of course. Giving away details of a show like this one, will ruin the magic for future audience members. But still…

So, what can this review tell you is that this is not a cheap throwaway show that you’ll forget in a day or two. Showman is his most personal tour to date and that makes the experience tremendously special. The story behind the show gives every trick, every quip and every turn, a deeper meaning – it connects the audience to Brown and it connect us to each other too.

Brown’s presence is electric, his showmanship captivating. We can’t tear our eyes away from him – and nor do we want to. As the curtain rises at half time, the room is filled with murmurs as every person turns to their neighbour and asks – How did he just do that? As we leave the theatre at the end, groups of people huddle outside, scratching their heads, trying to figure out what the hell they’ve just seen.

I suppose this review can tell you about the standing ovation, and that the show is Brown’s best work yet. It can tell you that Showman will meet your expectations, and it’ll raise them again too.

• Stage & Screen

★★★★★ “A performance that will blow your mind” ~ THE GUARDIAN

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In this series of Boot Camp, Derren Brown is joined by top behavioural scientists and diverse experts to reveal how we can control these powerful and mysterious forces which often hijack our rational thinking and lead us seriously astray. 

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Magician Derren Brown: The only thing I can promise audiences at Edinburgh show is deception

THE illusionist is taking his latest stage show, Infamous, to Edinburgh this week for a six-night residency at the city's Playhouse Theatre.

• 00:01, 5 MAY 2013
• Updated 08:22, 5 MAY 2013

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WHEN Derren Brown asks for your trust, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to duck behind the sofa.

He is, after all, a man who has played Russian Roulette live on TV, turned a group of mild-mannered middle managers into armed robbers and convinced a couch potato he was one of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

It’s all been above board – he obviously survived Russian Roulette, nothing was actually stolen in the robbery, and the apocalypse was a liberating, if terrifying, experience for the willing victim – but he can make no such promises about his latest stage show, Infamous, which is heading to Edinburgh this week for a six-night residency at the city’s Playhouse Theatre.

If you go and see him, you will be deceived and that’s about all he can tell you. As for the rest, the audience will just have to trust him.

He said: “What is the show? That’s the trouble. I have to keep the show a secret because otherwise it would ruin the surprises. Like the other shows it is based on audience participation but it has a different feel to previous shows, it’s more stripped down. It is a move away from the template we had kind of established.

“With TV, if you are going to follow somebody’s journey for a couple of hours, as you did in Apocalypse, it has got to be a balance of being somebody who you don’t necessarily like at the beginning but will like soon enough so you are going to be rooting for them. It has to be somebody that you could tell needed to change.

“On stage, of course, I don’t have choice at all. I choose people by throwing frisbees out to people and I have to work with whoever comes up. Sometimes they are going to be responsive to techniques I am using, sometimes they are not and I have to change the way I am doing it but the point of a stage show really is to randomise the audience selection.

“One of the reasons why I don’t really do the tricks so much on TV and save them for the stage is because you never really know what you are watching in TV. You are watching something which, of course, has to be edited, short of it being a live steam feed, and if you see something that seems highly ambitious, amazing or impossible, obviously people are going to get highly sceptical.

“The irony is the stuff I am doing on TV is completely honest, there is no deception involved, whereas the stage show, because it is rooted in magic and a love of magic, of course there is deception involved. I still draw the line at stooges and what not, nobody is playing along. It’s funny, but I have drifted into two different worlds: the TV has become more like a reality programme while the stage show is still rooted in the golden age of magic. That’s one joy of being on stage.”

Infamous is Derren’s sixth show since 2003. He has toured every year since then and played to more than two million people.

He has won two Olivier Awards along the way, for Something Wicked This Way Comes in 2006 and last year’s acclaimed show, Svengali.

The show has seen him reunited with his close collaborator Andy Nyman, although inspiration is never hard to find.

He said: “It has been a really good experience to get back together and work together again. Equally it was really good to break it up for a bit and make the show with somebody else.

“Svengali was a group effort, there was a whole team of us doing it. This has gone back to just two of us and I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s been a good move. We just try to come up with ideas that we think will deliver, and over deliver and can’t really repeat things from before. There is a lot of good ideas, you just have to find them.

“With the TV shows, obviously there are some things that are too similar to what we have done before, but generally speaking it is just things that feel important or worthwhile at the time and there is always going to be something like that.

“With the stage show, there is a little bit of pressure, you have to come up with a really good scenario to have to make sure you are not doing stuff that feels too familiar but it’s never been a problem.

“It’s always about moving stuff forward. Otherwise, if you start worrying too much about doing something better than what you have done before then things just get bigger and bigger and madder and madder and lose any sense of resonance or intelligence. I’ve never tried to outdo myself.

“What’s happened over time is the shows have just changed, I think they have grown up and every couple of years I have done something very different and taken it in a different direction. I think keeping fresh is a much saner and easier route, rather than trying to constantly outdo yourself.”

Now 42, his own inspiration began when, at university, he saw a hypnotist at work and was, in a sense, spellbound. He said: “It worked really well and I thought it was the most amazing thing I’d seen, and probably at some level the desire to perform, to control, obviously with hypnosis, was important to me, impressing people and all those things.

“So as the shows have moved over the years, and they have moved away from that because I have moved away from that kind of desire to impress, but I think it was that, a fortuitous coincidence of seeing a performer who triggered something in me.”

Edinburgh is his next port of call on the Enigma tour and he is particularly looking forward to playing the capital.

He said: “Edinburgh is an absolute highlight of the tour. It is one of the great cities on tour in terms of a place with a huge sense of community and bright, lively audiences – and theatres where you can hear the audiences. Dublin is another one and Bristol too and I am not doing either this tour, so Edinburgh is genuinely, absolutely the highlight.”

Of course, the dark manipulator of magic could just be playing with our minds. Then again, maybe not. When he is not on stage, he focuses very much on being a regular person, albeit one with a lot of fans.

He said: “I find that people are nice. You can’t complain when you are well-known and people decide they already like you. It’s a nice aspect to the world. Equally, if people are going to chase you down the street asking you to show them a trick, that’s a bit rude, but they are probably a bit rude anyway.

“I don’t play up to it. I don’t think of that side of myself in social situations because it would be such a weird way of behaving. Such a controlling thing. I’m not weirdly or subliminally controlling people. That’s my job. That’s what I go out and do for a living and I love doing it in the context of a stage show or a TV show or whatever, but in real life I just stay away from it.”

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DERREN BROWN RETURNS TO THE WEST END STAGE!

Derren Brown , the multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion is back, bringing his critically acclaimed production SHOWMAN to the West End for the very first time. Fresh from a sold out tour of the UK and Ireland, his new, interactive show, has received the most off-the-chart reviews of his career.

The content of SHOWMAN remains a closely guarded secret, but if you’ve seen him before, you know you’re in for a powerhouse treat!

★★★★★ 'I’ve never watched anything so captivating, mesmerising and utterly flabbergasting in my life. He truly is The Greatest Showman' Liverpool Echo

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Derren Brown announces 2022 dates for ‘Showman’

Derren Brown is set to embark on an 8-month tour across the UK in 2022 as he unveils the dates for his ‘Showman' tour.

His biggest tour in 20 years, Brown will thrill audiences with his mind control and illusion abilities.

Derren commented: “2022 will be the biggest tour I’ve done in 20 years. It’s exciting and daunting and I’m considering a bigger suitcase. Maybe even a four-wheeler. It’s madness and I can’t wait.”

Tickets are now on sale at  www.derrenbrown.co.uk , where tickets can also be purchased for the 10-date 2021 ‘Showman' tour.

The new tour dates in full:

March 8 – 12                     King’s Theatre, Glasgow

March 15 – 19                   Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe

March 22 – 26                   Theatre Royal, Norwich

March 29 – April 2             New Theatre, Cardiff

April 12 – 16                     The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

April 19 – 23                     Grand Opera House, Belfast

April 26 – 30                     Millennium Forum Theatre, Derry/Londonderry

May 3 – 7                         Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

May 10 – 14                      His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

May 24 – 28                      Hippodrome, Bristol

May 31 – June 5               Empire, Liverpool

June 7 – 11                       New Victoria Theatre, Woking

June 14 – 18                     Theatre Royal, Nottingham

June 21 – 25                     Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

July 5 – 16                        The Lowry, Salford Quays

July 19 – 23                      Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes

July 26 – 30                      MayFlower Theatre, Southampton

August 8 – 14                   Orchard Theatre, Dartford

August 16 – 20                  Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth

August 23 – 27                  Grand Theatre, Leeds

August 30 – Sept 3            Cliffs Pavilion, Southend

September 13 – 17            Theatre Royal, Newcastle

September 27 – Oct 1       Regent Theatre, Ipswich

October 4 – 8                    New Theatre, Oxford

October 11 – 15                Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

October 18 – 22                The Globe Theatre, Stockton

October 25 – 29                Royal & Derngate, Northampton

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To book tickets go to:  www.derrenbrown.co.uk  or check directly with the venue websites.  Times vary.

All existing tickets purchased for ‘Showman' remain valid.

Derren’s live shows have won him two prestigious Olivier Awards – for ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes' (2006) and ‘Svengali' (2012) and he has received more Olivier nominations and wins than any other one-man show in theatre history. He has played to sold-out houses across the country every year since 2003 to over 1.6M people.

Previous shows, ‘Infamous', (2013, 2014), ‘Miracle' (2015, 2016) and ‘Underground' (2017, 2018) have also enjoyed critically acclaimed seasons in London’s West End. In 2017 he made an award-winning US stage debut at the Atlantic Theater in New York with ‘Derren Brown: Secret', which subsequently enjoyed a sell-out run at Broadway’s Cort Theatre.

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Be prepared for a theatrical roller-coaster ride as the acknowledged master of psychological illusion comes to the West End with his brand new show DERREN BROWN: SVENGALI.

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