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Yet the magicians’ aspect this week in the District in the show “ Elephant Room ” — their first artificial performance and the first show of its kind at the Arena Stage — may leave them disillusioned with their audience.
“D.C.’s got more tricks than we’ve got. It’s full of sham. That’s why people appreciate it here,” Magic said. “We recognize there are people coming to the show looking for tips — politicians, looking for tricks.”
“Elephant Live” is a magic show in that it contains grand illusion and sleight of disseminate, but it’s also a theatrical experience. As the magicians do their tricks, we learn about what brought them here, to Arena Status and to this point in their lives — tough childhoods, bad luck in intended, spiritual awakenings. These personal transformations imbue their onstage transformations with a higher gist.
“If you endow [the trick] with a simple meaning, saying, ‘Isn’t this unbiased like life, how one thing transforms into another, or we lose things?’ you give connotation to the effect,” Diamond said.
Source: Washington Post