Dates: Sat 3 May

Times: Various time slots between 11am - 6pm

Duration: 15 mins

Age guidance: 14+
Pay What You Decide: £10 suggested donation

Access Considerations: Audience participation

Venue: Cafe Under The Spire, Derwentwater Rd, Gateshead NE8 2SH

About

Inside a café in Gateshead, surrounded by unsuspecting customers, you are invited to sit at a table and watch a 10-minute performance. In front of your very eyes, playing cards transform inexplicably and sugar cubes vanish without a trace. But as you listen to the performer's voice and the sounds of the café on headphones, the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly thin: is this a real café, or a film set filled with actors?

Combining expert sleight-of-hand magic with the dreamlike nature of cinema, Close-up invites you to briefly reimagine everyday life as an uncanny illusion.

Close-up continues Gambini's enquiry into magic, exploring how the illusion of impossible events can shine a light on questions of performance, perception and constructed realities.

Artist biographies:

Vincent Gambini (aka Augusto Corrieri) is an award-winning magician and theatre artist. Previous magic performances include 'This is not a magic show', 'The Chore of Enchantment', and the film 'The Disappearing of Vincent Gambini', made with artist Hugo Glendinning. He is based in Brighton and lectures in Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex.

Artist website:

www.augustocorrieri.com

www.vincentgambini.com

Credits:

Close-up is written & performed by Vincent Gambini

Creative Producer: Steve Goatman

Sound Design: Yas Clarke

Documentation: Rosie Powell

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