"Ultimately, it's a show about human connection. Whether you trust your eyes or you don't, whether his deceptions work on you or don't, or if you simply take the evening as a fascinating social experiment or couples therapy, it's all about a shared experience."
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"You end up, as ever, completely confounded by Brown’s combination of seamless stage magic and eerie ability to read and manipulate human beings – with a touching emotional pay-off, too."
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"If 'Showman' has a message, then, it’s this: acceptance is worth making a song and dance about. And if things don’t always go to plan – well, that’s life."
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"Pathos and delight, laughter and alarm. ‘Showman’ does everything a Derren Brown show sets out to do – you’ll begin whispering ‘there’s no way, that guy had to be an actor’, and you’ll end up in the pub, deconstructing every moment."
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"The title of this show is pretty accurate as it became clear to me after watching that Derren Brown really is the greatest showman."
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"It is a performance as clever as it is charismatic; a potent enchantment."
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