Magic Routines
Magic Should Tell a Story So, as I continue my never ending process of developing a magic show and routines within the show that have a good start, middle, and end ( a useful narrative technique) I saw this link from Bizarro to a video which, says all good stories basically: Tell a story to a certain point, and then need a … But, then or Therefore … And also have multiple things going on so that at each crescendo of each story, we can cut back to … what’s happened elsewhere and get that story to it’s next (but/therefore) For magic purposes, if applied to the “snap silks” we have a single sink handkerchief. music playing. But! With a snap there’s another. And But! with a snap there’s another… and so on for a bit. By the end, there’s one last one. THEREFORE, at least as Anastasia performs it, that seems to be it, and all the produced silk hankies are lifted, BUT … there are many many more all coming out in a flourish! In the full routine context the first time an additional silk appears is unique, and then serves to lead the audience down a certain path. This leads towards the kitten story theory which I will discuss in an upcoming post.