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Vincent Gambini

Close-Up

Friday 16 May, 9.00am–Saturday 24 May, 3.20pm

The Yard Coffee

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Tickets: £9.00 - £10.00

Close-up is a unique magic performance on headphones, for one spectator at a time.

Inside a café, surrounded by unsuspecting customers, you are invited to sit at a table and watch a 15-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? What is really happening, and what is simulated and pre-recorded?

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.

‘There’s something deeply satisfying in the chill, philosophical style of Vincent Gambini the magician.’ Exeunt Magazine

Important information

Venue: The Yard Coffee

Age guidance: 14+

Duration: 15 minutes

Tickets

Tickets: £10.00

Concessions: 10% off tickets priced £10 or over for D/deaf or disabled, Full-time students, Go 4Less cardholders and Jobseekers

These one-on-one performances take place throughout the day on Friday 16, Saturday 17, Friday 23 & Saturday 24 May and are approximately 15 minutes long.

Select a performance

Friday

16 May

09:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

09:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

10:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

10:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

11:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

11:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

11:40 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

12:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

12:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

01:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

02:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

02:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

02:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

03:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

03:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

04:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

04:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

16 May

04:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

09:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

09:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

10:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

10:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

11:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

11:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

11:40 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

12:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

12:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

01:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

02:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

02:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

02:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

03:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

03:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

04:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

04:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

17 May

04:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

09:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

09:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

10:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

10:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

11:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

11:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

11:40 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

12:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

12:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

01:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

02:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

02:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

02:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

03:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

03:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

04:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

04:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Friday

23 May

04:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

09:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

09:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

10:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

10:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

11:00 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

11:20 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

11:40 am

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

12:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

12:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

01:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

02:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

02:40 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

03:00 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

Saturday

24 May

03:20 pm

£9.00 - £10.00

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