The Power of the Mind mind mind...
Mar. 25th, 2023 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaWe're both fans of "The Goes Wrong Show". And really enjoyed "The Play That Goes Wrong". And "Magic Goes Wrong". So when the Magic Goes Wrong spin-off "The Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle" came to the Lowry in Manchester we had to go along.
We started off in one ofthe trendy restaurants in Salford Quays. The Botanist. Flick wanted to buy me chocolatey cocktails, and the food looked nice. Indeed it was nice. I had a pork hanging kebab. Flick went for the steak, ale and stilton pie. Yum!
We were actually a bit late booking seats, but this is the Lowry, a nice modern theatre build in 2000. There's a decent view from nearly all the seats, and decent sized seats, so even in our seats up near the rafters we didn't miss anything.
The start of the show is the same as Magic Goes Wrong. The Mind Mangler tells us about his enhanced senses, how he can taste names and smell the jobs people do. Of course the tricks don't actually work. But there are a bunch of other tricks, some actually work. A lot of it is clearly improv. Some of it more obviously staged, especially his stooge - wearing a T-shirt that says "Audience member" so we know he's just a randomly picked audience member.
The stooge is played by Jonathan Sayer (Dennis in the Goes Wrong Show), and I really like him. He's actually from Ashton so was playing to the home crowd. Never all that clear whether he actually took audience shoutouts or just made something up though.
Anyway, then we needed to escape. As did everyone else who was in the audience. This meant queuing for the ticket machine, queuing for the exit, and then queuing to get out. Where directions from satnav were misleading and we had to rejoin the queue. Also people seemed to have a habit of waiting for the lights to change against them before crossing the road.
Still, it was a enjoyable evening at the theatre! And it's really nice seeing two of the original mischief members on stage!
We started off in one ofthe trendy restaurants in Salford Quays. The Botanist. Flick wanted to buy me chocolatey cocktails, and the food looked nice. Indeed it was nice. I had a pork hanging kebab. Flick went for the steak, ale and stilton pie. Yum!
We were actually a bit late booking seats, but this is the Lowry, a nice modern theatre build in 2000. There's a decent view from nearly all the seats, and decent sized seats, so even in our seats up near the rafters we didn't miss anything.
The start of the show is the same as Magic Goes Wrong. The Mind Mangler tells us about his enhanced senses, how he can taste names and smell the jobs people do. Of course the tricks don't actually work. But there are a bunch of other tricks, some actually work. A lot of it is clearly improv. Some of it more obviously staged, especially his stooge - wearing a T-shirt that says "Audience member" so we know he's just a randomly picked audience member.
The stooge is played by Jonathan Sayer (Dennis in the Goes Wrong Show), and I really like him. He's actually from Ashton so was playing to the home crowd. Never all that clear whether he actually took audience shoutouts or just made something up though.
Anyway, then we needed to escape. As did everyone else who was in the audience. This meant queuing for the ticket machine, queuing for the exit, and then queuing to get out. Where directions from satnav were misleading and we had to rejoin the queue. Also people seemed to have a habit of waiting for the lights to change against them before crossing the road.
Still, it was a enjoyable evening at the theatre! And it's really nice seeing two of the original mischief members on stage!
