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Back from their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024, stage Hypnotist Poldark, along with his partner-in-crime, magician Angus Baskerville, bring their light-hearted and fun-filled show that will leave you in awe and wonder.
Opening the show is magician/mind reader Angus Baskerville, a member of the prestigious Magic Circle, with his sleight of hand trickery and impossible mentalism predictions. Volunteer to get up close as he performs tricks right in front of your eyes and accurately reads your mind.
Then, the headline act, international Cabaret and master stage Hypnotist, Poldark, will seize your attention. Choose how you enter the comedic world of hypnosis; either as a spectator in the audience or volunteer to participate on stage and bring the entertainment to life!
With unforgettable immersive experiences, demonstrations of hypnotic phenomena and hilariously fun comedy, you'll be in stitches while trying to figure out how on earth he does it.
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WORLD MAGIC REVIEW
★★★★
The beautiful venue choice and staging perfectly sets the scene for the style of The Poldark Show—Stage Hypnotist. The audience enters a church hall to find a velvet draped stage, and the sense of classy grandeur is a constant throughout the show. Hypnotist Poldark is clearly a master of the craft, balancing respect for his participants with showmanship and entertainment for the offstage members of the audience.
Poldark’s brand of hypnosis is notable at this Fringe for its calming, meditative qualities in a field that currently seems to favor sharp, loud noises as a methodology. The Poldark version is more pleasant on the audience ear, even providing a relaxing environment for those who did not put themselves forward to be hypnotized. No one method of hypnotism will work on everyone, but at the reviewed show Poldark had a very respectable success rate, that gave him ample supply of hypnotized individuals for his demonstrations.
There is a gently comedic element to The Poldark Show, in a respectful and family friendly way. The hypnotized participants are not asked to do anything embarrassing. His final hypnotic demonstration is less for comedic effect and more just for the wow factor. Even those who have seen a wide variety of other hypnotism shows are unlikely to have seen anything even remotely close to this. Poldark has a kind stage presence, and at the reviewed show some who did not manage to get hypnotized or were awoken from that state during the performance even played along just to try to help him out. However, ever the professional, Poldark spotted them quickly and found opportune moments to quickly ensure that they were okay and invite them to return to the rest of the audience.
The hypnotism takes the majority of the show’s run time, but Poldark does still take a moment to get the whole audience involved in a warm up imaginative exercise. It may start similar to an exercise often used in this kind of show, but once again Poldark demonstrates his unusual take on stage hypnotism—it’s actually a completely different exercise to what the audience probably anticipates.
The Poldark Show is without a doubt the place to be this Fringe for a pleasant hypnotic experience, whether as an onstage participant or a curious onlooker. Unfortunately the reviewed show was the final one of this Fringe, but Poldark will be heading out on tour, and will hopefully return to Edinburgh someday. Fans of being hypnotized or watching hypnotism are advised to look him up.
