{"title": "This Is Not A Magic Show", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "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", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "'This Is Not A Magic Show' is a work of theatre-magic in which playing cards transform and silver coins appear, while our perception of reality shatters. It is created and performed by artist Vincent Gambini, the pseudonym of Brighton-based performance maker Augusto Corrieri. Through conversational, crafted sleight-of-hand, he questions the show itself and explores magic's invisible mechanics, its clichés, and what it reveals about live performance and make-believe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/this-is-not-a-magic-show-73837/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/this-is-not-a-magic-show/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/21087fd60c73c146475cae80d5f9f7f7499411084a9fbe38222db84c5f1b4177-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": null, "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": "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", "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": ""}, {"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", "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": "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", "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"}, {"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", "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": "Liminal (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "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", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Liminal (Work-in-Progress) is a performance at Battersea Arts Centre that blends performance magic with live art, movement and film, inviting audiences to explore the boundaries between illusion and reality. It is created and performed by Hsiang-Sheng Teng, a London-based interdisciplinary artist from Taiwan, with outside eye Tom Cassani and support from Forecast / Skills e.V. Drawing on his experience learning silk magic from a Japanese sensei, the piece reveals the hidden world and politics of silk, showing through transformations and recurring actions how illusion is constructed and sustained. It takes audiences on a journey through the 'in-betweenness' of the ordinary and the extraordinary, East and West, the visible and the invisible, performance and life, and illusion and reality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liminal-work-in-progress-73833/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/liminal/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c99eff10175ed69f2437f4f8c9c6777accd2bac22cca3a17b8a665d3e6caa8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Live Magic/Theatre: The Great Divinator: Touched by Spirits", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Puppet Theatre Barge", "address": "Blomfield Road (opposite 35), W9 2PF London", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic", "comedy"], "description": "A magic and theatre performance called 'The Great Divinator: Touched by Spirits', which is not a puppet show and is for ages 12 and up. It stars Katie Tranter, a multi award-winner and member of the Magic Circle, as a celebrated 19th-century spirit medium returning to the stage after a 106-year career break to prove he can communicate with spirits. The show combines vintage mind reading, outrageous audience participation, comedy Victorian seance, drag, mentalism and spooky paranormal happenings. 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": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (recommended price £12)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress) is a solo performance show in which the audience takes part in a mass psychic reading. It is made by Tom Cassani, an award-winning UK-based performance maker who works with choreography, magic, sideshow and live art. Built around a classic psychic reading and a live text, the show draws on the worlds of mind readers, divinators and charismatic public speakers to reveal how we as an audience unknowingly share similar experiences and thoughts. Cassani turns an individual reading into a collective, self-reflective experience where unlikely connections begin to appear.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oraculum-work-in-progress-73834/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/oraculum/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/458be263d7bc16cc5c799edb217590ddfebf156069a3d4b93cd5acd33c2b2fd6-1200.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, "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": "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 25–42.50", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "42.50", "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. The multi-award-winning showman, who wrote the show with Stephen Long and Andrew O'Connor, combines mind-reading, psychological illusion and storytelling. Only Human explores what it means to be human, looking at our perceptions, beliefs and the fragile line between reality and illusion. Directed by Andrew O'Connor, the production runs for about 2 hours 25 minutes including one interval and is recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-37385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32d99f6bf46105e9df7f52d17288566340709b5f9c703f40c683201c771eace3-2000.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", "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": "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", "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": "Autumn/ Winter 26: Jo Bannon - The Dirty Work", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Place", "address": "Duke's Road 17, WC1H 9PY London", "price": "£22 (£5–£18)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Dirty Work is a new solo performance by Jo Bannon at The Place. It peeks behind the velvet curtain, blending the tricks of the trade — a white rabbit, a magic wand, a puff of smoke — with Bannon's lived experience of visual impairment. She invites audiences to glimpse a world where truth and illusion, performance and reality converge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-winter-26-jo-bannon-the-dirty-work-65765/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Just Another Magic Monday with Jerry Sadowitz & Caspar Thomas", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Betsey Trotwood", "address": "Farringdon Road 56, EC1R 3BL London", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtyard Theatre", "address": "", "price": "£38.50", "price_from": "38.50", "price_to": "38.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC is an 80-minute action-packed magic and illusion show at The Courtyard Theatre in Shoreditch. It is created by Magical Bones, a Britain's Got Talent finalist considered among the hottest British talent on the magic scene. The show mixes jaw-dropping street magic, backflipping card tricks and breakdance moves, and sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 before coming to London for the first time in an exclusive two-week run.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magical-bones-presents-bonefide-magic-45815/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70cb1c611fc89a7998f6f146916adaf0f7620770b399b30000be3dfe2789b740-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Full price: £16.45 (Incl. booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "A wordless duet in which two strangers, stuck waiting on a station bench for a train that never arrives, fill the empty hours with increasingly absurd games. It is produced and presented by Dis Equilibre and blends visual, poetic performance with physical theatre and contemporary circus, turning boredom into play and shared silence into an unexpected encounter. The show won the 'Best Direction' award at the Rome Fringe Festival, was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe, and has been touring Italy for two years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/binary-lives-where-fate-takes-us-39098/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/binary_lives_-_where_fate_takes_us", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91cc466c7e1d64deacbde3d4b07158d717e837640e5824c0c8df6c7d2164eafa-1200.webp"}]}