This is a new edition of the legendary Punx book, Magical Adventures and Fairy Tales.
Theatrical magic is magic presented with a story. This creates a powerful magical experience, because all emotions can be brought into play. Punx won lifetime achievement awards for having created this style. He was highly acclaimed not only by magicians but also by theatre critics.
Here Punx presents seventeen routines, complete with his engaging stories, and discusses his reasoning and methods for creating effects and stories. Bill Palmer gives some tips on how to present story magic to modern audiences and Richard Hatch provides a short biography of Punx.
Contents
Most routines are for close-up; a few are for platform.
- Heart of Glass: a glass penetration that Punx used to close his evening show (he said of it: “Nothing can follow it”)
- The Four Wishes: a four-ace assembly with a lovely story that actually makes sense
- Indian Legend: a Buddhist tale told with pearls
- The Haunted Key: the original version of the classic Bizarre routine
- Humorous presentations for the Six-Card Repeat, a newspaper tear and the Monkey Bar (Acrobatic Silks), and more.
The first English edition of this book has been long out of print and is difficult — and pricey! — to find today. I Saw That! is proud to make this wonderful book available again. This new edition has a new title, a new translation by Bill Palmer, additional notes, an additional bonus routine and a foreword by Ted Lesley.
If ever there was a book that deserves to be on every magicians bookshelf, this is it. Get your copy today!