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Edinburgh International Magic Festival

  • Source: The List (Issue 660)
  • Date: 7 July 2010
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This article is from 2010.

Edinburgh International Magic Festival

You’ll like this, but not a lot: Edinburgh’s first festival of the dark ‘n’ sparkly arts of conjuring, mind-messing and, er, producing rabbits from hats. There’s quite a complex programme: workshops in Derren Brownesque trickery, a series of films about magicians running at the Filmhouse, that bloke from The Real Hustle showing you how to nick stuff, and, excitingly, a magicians battle, which we imagine to be something like that bit from The Lord of the Rings with Gandalf, Christopher Lee and all those flashing lights. Bish bash bosh!

No lovely Debbie McGee to be seen though, sadly... See www.magicfest.co.uk for full listings.

Various venues, Edinburgh, until Sun 11 Jul

This article is from 2010.

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29 Jun–6 Jul Times vary Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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