Pantomime is magic! Audiences expect to be amazed and entertained by the hard-to-explain happenings in the fantasyland that is pantomime. Storylines are greatly enhanced by the introduction of the unusual – which becomes usual in pantomime!
Pantomime is a world where the impossible becomes possible – a world of fantasy. Script-writers and producers have a duty to create a place of mystery, because panto-land is a magic place the ‘magic’ should be performed ‘matter-of-fact’ as an everyday, normal, occurrence, and not displayed as a conjuring trick.
You will find in this book over forty gags, stunts, illusions and bits-of-nonsense especially collected for use in pantomime. This is not a book to help you to do conjuring tricks or to make you into a magician. The aim of this book is to allow you to put some magic into your pantomime production. This collection includes simple gags, some of which can be made by yourself; some standard magical props which you will be able to buy from a magic shop, and other larger illusion-type stage props which will have to be made by yourself or your props-maker.
| Chapter 4 Black Art | : | "Black Art" has nothing to do with the "black arts" of legend. Instead, this is a separate sector of magic. The principle works on the idea that a black object can’t be seen against a black background.
This kind of magic is no doubt the closest to an act of real magic in existence, and one of the easiest kinds of illusions to perform. If the wizard or fairy or other immortal wears a white or bright outfit as the lights go down the audience will see only the immortal. The wizard/fairy can command any desired item to appear, float and then disappear. People, animals, flowers, tables seem to appear, vanish or float at a command. There is absolutely no end to what the performer can do. | | The Secret | : | This is field of magic which has largely disappeared in present-day magical performances but is ideal for certain scenes in pantomime., particularly those scenes when the lights are low and the stage is dark. It is relatively easy to perform and thus is ideal for non-magicians to do well.
In the dark, particularly with UV lighting shining on the stage, everything that is black is unseen by the audience. Everything which glows in UV light will be seen by the audience. To make something appear, just have your black-clad assistant carry it onto the stage. |
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