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Mark Leveridge "Leveridge Legerdemain" lecture
The Bristol Society of Magic
10th April 2024
Reviewed by Paul Preager
The
material for Mark’s latest lecture Leveridge Legerdemain is drawn from his vast
‘E-Club Pro’ resource library of videos, lectures and published magic, built up
over several decades. Consequently there was a wide variety of magic on offer
that would suit everyone from the working magician to young newcomer. It’s also
all with items most magicians will already have or can easily make up.
Close-up, mentalism, parlour shows and strolling magic were all catered for by
magic with cards, coins, finger ring, sponge ball, magic square, as well as a
couple of entertaining anecdotal disaster stories under the heading “It Could
only Happen Live” another section of his E-Club Pro resource. Both stories
showed the sort of things that can happen when working in the real world and how
you can still survive.
Mark has a great knack of making his methods very accessible thus making the
magic suitable for every level. He also tackles some of the classic plots like
Any Card At Any Number and provides a very practical solution as shown with his
Simplex ACAAN routine that started the evening off. Mark’s ball and glass
routine offers something different to do with a sponge ball and a glass that
will fool magicians and lay people alike.
Mark is also clever at borrowing well known methods for new routines like his
“Free Choice” which used the 10-card poker deal to allow the spectator to
separate red cards from black that had an unexpected kicker ending. A well-known
coin penetration of a handkerchief was also used for a clean coin transposition
from handkerchief to coin box.
The Amazon Predictor made for a great parlour routine where the spectator is
able to predict the book that Amazon will send to him which he has been holding
in an Amazon box the whole time and his Perfect Tuition used a great method for
allowing a spectator to make sure their most trusted person ends up with the
right envelope, a routine that has great potential for other presentations.
There’s other prediction and card routines as well all making for a varied
evening of magic ideal for enthusiasts, workers, and newbies. Mark explains
everything in detail and a video of the lecture is available as notes weren’t on
sale. Everything was well thought through and original with Mark. It should suit
any magic club very well and provide plenty of material for members to use for a
range of audiences.
© Paul Preager Hon Secretary Bristol Society of Magic, April 2024