My overall impression
GLITCHES IN REALITY (Platinum Medal)
Simon Coronel is a soft spoken lemur-faced Aussie who manages to accomplish two rather remarkable things in his show. First he meticulously deconstructs the entire stock in trade of the professional magician, describing in detail methods used to achieve the desired illusions, nonchalantly revealing secrets of the trade, at one point even enquiring who in his audience wants to know how a card trick is brought about, and who doesn’t . Then the “ignorance is bliss” crowd is invited to join him on stage and he sets about performing the trick for them, while exposing to the “Sho’me” bunch his mastery of card manipulation. Coronel’s second accomplishment in the course of the show is blowing the collective minds of his slack jawed audience.
I should come clean with you.
I hate magic. I hate pigeons flying out of a popped balloon, elephants disappearing, and Chris Angel’s pompadour.
However, I am an aficionada of the ancient art of prestidigitation, and I wouldn’t say Coronel is a world class slight of hand artist.
He’s better than that.
This guy is in the league of Ricky Jay.
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