{"title": "Magic: An Illustrated History", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Magic: An Illustrated History is a theatre show combining live vocals, puppetry and illusion to create a shifting, dreamlike narrative. Performer and musician Jim Dahl Presents an oblique history of magic, exploring the conflicting role of the magician as conjuror, raconteur and charlatan. The 50-minute performance is recommended for ages 16 and over and takes place in the venue's Members Library. Jim Dahl Presents is a performer and musician based in Wales whose practice is informed by folklore, music and the uncanny.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magic-an-illustrated-history-73826/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/magic-an-illustrated-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a5f3757b4ce3fccfbca9ea0e5e18e04172e635127df6987b7e791ea2d128237-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": "sold_out"}, {"start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Derren Brown: Only Human", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T19:30:00Z", "place": "Apollo Theatre", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 31, W1D 7EZ London", "price": "GBP 25–60", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nimaxtheatres.com/shop/tickets/series/APDER02M", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Derren Brown: Only Human is a live stage show by Derren Brown at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End, following a sold-out UK and Ireland tour. 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It runs 1h30 including a 20-minute interval and has won awards including Best Variety Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/live-magictheatre-the-great-divinator-touched-by-spirits-39614/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07ef7c545b7f28f6380edb93625c3758ae47a9e0caf1c32ff50b8f2fdcf0cd7b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Derren Brown: Only Human", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Leicester Square", "address": "", "price": "££", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Derren Brown: Only Human is a live show in the West End, following a sold-out UK & Ireland tour. Multi-award-winning master showman Derren Brown combines mind-reading, psychological illusion, and breathtaking storytelling. The show explores what it means to be human — our perceptions, beliefs, and the fragile line between reality and illusion. Smart, unsettling, and wildly entertaining, it is theatre at its most compelling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-69948/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d463ad3fefacdb5e3a14d1a8f0f7abbbbdad3f03705bfbfa943de84f01643d97-1200.webp"}, {"title": "UNREAL A Festival of Magic and Performance", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Prices from £8), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "UNREAL is a festival of magic and performance at Battersea Arts Centre. It is curated by Tom Cassani, Augusto Corrieri and Tim Bromage, and brings together artists from across the UK and Europe working at the intersection of magic and performance. Over five days, audiences encounter images, transformations and moments of collective awe, as sleight of hand and stage illusion are reimagined through theatre, choreography and live art. The festival invites audiences behind the curtain, questioning assumptions about what we see, hear and believe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unreal-a-festival-of-magic-and-performance-73827/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/26b1487993350f78357fbddbc07b7fb23baa6cbe0c00d0a2e4ddeaafc7b6821b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Black Magic and Iterations (Double Bill)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations-double-bill/book/469097", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "A double bill of contemporary magic, 'Black Magic' and 'Iterations', asking how much you trust your own eyes through sleight of hand, illusion and trickery. 'Black Magic' is conceived by Luis Sartori do Vale and Kalle Nio, who merge black theatre techniques and double exposure with modern technology to create illusions in real time. 'Iterations' is written, choreographed and performed by Tom Cassani, exposing the practising magician and showing how impossibilities emerge through simple repetition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-magic-and-iterations-double-bill-73829/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae582b262c28872ac58d2a3d4be5d0015714dac1c2ea95dab23ae6b02d387eb7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Friendly Magic Show - Halloween daytime", "start": "2026-10-31T14:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T15:30:00Z", "place": "The Magic Garden", "address": "Battersea Park Road 231, SW11 4LG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-friendly-magic-show-halloween-daytime-tickets-2003282570094", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "A family-friendly magic show bringing an afternoon of mind-boggling tricks, hilarious surprises and magical mayhem to a pub and live music venue in Battersea. It is led by Maximilian, a TV magician known for Sky One's Max Magic and BBC One's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an award-winning member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star. Expect laughter, audience participation and illusions that leave the whole family scratching their heads, with fun for little ones and grown-ups alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-friendly-magic-show-halloween-daytime-76863/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/efbb16bdf30fba1d00351bf2454ad84df9bf5bfe8bcc1dd3822cc4796c1e3d3e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kevin Quantum: Anti-Gravity 2026", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Questors Theatre", "address": "Mattock Lane 12, W5 5BQ London", "price": "£22.00 – £25.00", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://questors.org.uk/book/234049AVVQKKGSHLCBNPQTCVKHRLTJDJT", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["science/physics", "stage/magic"], "description": "A magic show where science and magic meet, billed as a mind-blowing show for sceptics. It is performed by Kevin Quantum, a Magic Circle Member who has spent half his adult life studying Physics and half studying magic, and was tutored by Penn & Teller. The show features impossible illusions, levitations and epic stunts in a space where the rules of gravity are bent and broken. It runs for 1 hour 30 minutes plus a 20 minute interval and is recommended for ages 12+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kevin-quantum-anti-gravity-2026-70227/", "official_url": "https://questors.org.uk/event/kevin-quantum-anti-gravity-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d56d6d77231c07a6df04c8222323b2668c6f03258e0af086d30caefcbbbf032-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Gentleman Cheater Magic Show", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Radisson Blu Edwardian Grafton", "address": "130 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 5AY London", "price": "GBP 50", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/radisson-blu-edwardian-grafton", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "The Gentleman Cheater Magic Show is an interactive close-up magic show where every trick becomes a new challenge when the cards start burning the performer's hands. It is performed by Christian Gambin, an award-winning magician, World FISM and French Magic Champion, who plays in the London West End for the first time. An expert in sleight of hand, he invites the audience to play against him, and the nearer you are, the less you can see – but he never loses.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-gentleman-cheater-magic-show-63521/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a50e4c2fbf15f7366675c6b9e23e75baa86afa435af49803e5229e5b6f83a11a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtyard Theatre", "address": "", "price": "Tickets from £38.50 - £71.49", "price_from": "38.50", "price_to": "71.49", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC is an 80-minute action-packed magic and illusion show running at The Courtyard Theatre in Shoreditch for an exclusive two-week run. Behind it is Magical Bones, a Britain's Got Talent finalist hailed as the hottest British talent on the magic scene, who stands alone for sheer originality. The show is an awe-inspiring journey featuring breakdance moves, backflipping card tricks and jaw-dropping street magic. Sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, it now comes to London for the first time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magical-bones-presents-bonefide-magic-45815/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70cb1c611fc89a7998f6f146916adaf0f7620770b399b30000be3dfe2789b740-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Just Another Magic Monday with Jerry Sadowitz & Caspar Thomas", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T21:30:00Z", "place": "Betsey Trotwood", "address": "Farringdon Road 56, EC1R 3BL London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Just Another Magic Monday! Close up magic sleight of hand with Jerry Sadowitz & Caspar Thomas. A different show every week, with limited seating and advance booking only by email. Doors at 7pm, show starts 7.30pm prompt.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/just-another-magic-monday-with-jerry-sadowitz-caspar-thomas-42924/", "official_url": "https://www.thebetsey.com/music-events/just-another-magic-monday-with-jerry-sadowitz-and-caspar-thomas-fk4gh-ez8eb-sp7f9-469sb-e5dbe-pnr2a-ntzh4-dtkb4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f7d45d71e329a4ca7a8475761c02289f3f4bdc97827e2d65eed7f13d589e23b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Talk: UNREAL", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £8), plus a £2 transaction fee per order", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-festival-artist-talk/book/470096", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An artist talk lasting about an hour, held in the Members Bar at Battersea Arts Centre, a venue in south-west London. It brings together two trailblazing performance artists, Marisa Carnesky and Jo Bannon, who discuss their respective practices and how each has explored magic within them. With questions from UNREAL curators Tom Cassani and Augusto Corrieri, the conversation touches on covert choreographies, hidden bodies, high rituals and Show Women. It forms a thoughtful discussion on performance and magic, part of the UNREAL festival at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artist-talk-unreal-73831/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-artist-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5e34a120ffcb115493eccc6c5fea4d04b7a0444b090964cc571f63f6be889e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spellbound at The Society of Antiquaries", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "history"], "description": "Spellbound at The Society of Antiquaries is a Halloween event at Burlington House exploring magic, superstition and the occult. Visitors can encounter bellarmine \"spirit houses\", hexing bottles, books of spells, Renaissance occult philosophy that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and a physician's notebook with 17th-century recipes, chiromancy and astrology. Artist Sarah Newson leads an unconscious drawing activity and helps participants create protective amulets using worldwide symbols of luck and protection. Geoffrey Munn OBE FSA presents a 16th-century charmstone used for \"spirit tapping\", and Hear We Here We (Rory Harvey and Cale Donia) offer a soundscape and live performance; the ticket includes a spooky cocktail, all ages are welcome, and tickets are for hourly slots running from 5-8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spellbound-at-the-society-of-antiquaries-38653/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/spellbound/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/453b597baf65deda6e16e20da018845d88a0b0cd91c1c8631d645d435d99c4ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Magic as the Science of the Imagination", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "College of Psychic Studies", "address": "Queensberry Place 16, London", "price": "£22.00", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/esotericism"], "description": "An online talk at the College of Psychic Studies called 'Magic as the Science of the Imagination', exploring magic, myth and symbolic thought. It is led by Andrea Aste, a multimedia artist, animator and author known for his tarot decks and hybrid novels. The session draws on tarot, mythology, esoteric traditions, psychology and philosophy to treat imagination as a way of knowing and a gateway to deeper reality. It is open to all, invites live participation, and no prior knowledge is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magic-as-the-science-of-the-imagination-43070/", "official_url": "https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoteric/magic-as-the-science-of-the-imagination/?id=6663", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295acbf16029d54e8f6629e41bc3cc6d7f01125a67cfd87f95f96ebbc15a8885-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity-work-in-progress/book/469296", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress) is a solo theatre show by Shambles Ensemble, staged in the Members Bar of Battersea Arts Centre as part of the UNREAL festival. Created by the company and directed by Chris Yarnell, it fuses visual and physical storytelling, clowning, performance art and illusion to explore what it means to spend an eternity, what constitutes a soul, and how resilient the human spirit is. Inspired by Dorian Gray, lockdown and pot plants, the 60-minute show asks how you would spend forever and follows a life that is never quite finished. It is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud noises and themes of loss, death and suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/perpetuity-work-in-progress-73832/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1e93627a3b674fe2374f86bb3901b996fd63b0bc39ef68e33010d8035d27498-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Peter Rugman is Mort Whimsey in The Animagical Museum of Delights - Work in Progress", "start": "2026-11-07T19:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £8.00", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/tickets/33%3A315748", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "A work-in-progress comedy show in which Peter Rugman plays Mort Whimsey, the defrosting mid-century mogul behind Whimsey Studios. Together with his cartoon sidekick Lucky the Possum, Mort defends his legacy, confronts past scandals and debunks suspicious accidents. It is a dark and hilarious one-man journey through capitalism, nostalgia and animagical delights. The show contains strong language and themes including death, suicide and corporate abuse, and is recommended for ages 16 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peter-rugman-is-mort-whimsey-in-the-animagical-museum-of-del-63936/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/peter-rugman-mort-whimsey-animagical-museum-delights-work-progress", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7886a3c9e0b51b069ad85e959fecd28084a3e273c861e02db7914d04bdfb1ff-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Disappearing Man", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Queen's Theatre", "address": "RM11 1QT Hornchurch", "price": "£14.70–£30.70, Access £14.70–£22.70, Under 26s £10 (prices inc 70p QNext fee)", "price_from": "14.70", "price_to": "30.70", "tickets_url": "https://queens-theatre.co.uk/book?pid=19346&iid=316803", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "'The Disappearing Man' is a stage drama with live magic, recommended for ages 14 and over, running 140 minutes. Written by the multi-award-winning Kenny Emson and directed by Alex Thorpe, it is a Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and HighTide production. Washed-up magician Bazza Cadabra returns to the once-glittering Clacton-on-Sea for a final comeback after 20 years, hoping to reclaim the spotlight and mend his fragile bond with his son. Facing a flashy young magician, a no-nonsense new manager and the family he left behind, he blurs the line between performance and reality as he risks everything for his last great trick.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-disappearing-man-64294/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2be5a2e438fd396cddf8bc5eb274245578888ad3f4393eb7d90cfd11debe172-600.webp"}]}