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One of the most unique aspects of Paul
Kieve’s work is his
ability to invent and adapt magic effects to specific requirements.
Examples of these include:
“In the night’s most spectacular
moment, The Invisible Man unwraps his bandages to reveal the hole
where his head ought to be and miraculously contrives to smoke
a cigarette” Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
Used
to close act one of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, in the
West End. A boy appears to visibly shrink and change into a mouse! This
sensational illusion was featured twice on the BBCTV show Blue
Peter. “Dazzling Stage Disappearance” Time Out
A girl runs into a cabinet and covers
herself with a shroud - when it is pulled away she has changed
into a skeleton! Created for actress Mina Anwar in a production
at the Soho Theatre. "A wonderful shock when the medical skeleton
comes to life” Meera Syal, the Express
A beautiful dancer gets trapped in a
maze of mirrors and then visibly dissolves into nothing. Created
personally for Andrew Lloyd Webber
for a sequel to "The
Phantom Of The Opera", the illusion was performed at the composer's
Sydmonton Festival in 1997. "You did an absolutely fantastic job
in creating the illusion...it was knockout" Andrew
Lloyd Webber
Designed to enable
the Ghost Of Christmas Past to walk through an apparently solid
full length mirror in the Leslie Bricusse
musical “Scrooge” “a
beautiful & baffling illusion”; “a vanishing ghost
of Christmas past whose face looms in a mirror” Nicholas De Jongh,
Evening Standard
A giant
playing card transforms into a real living Queen Of Hearts. Created
for English National Ballet’s production
of Alice In Wonderland. “A Great stage effect” Debra
Craine, The Times
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