The Longevity of Magicians

Vyner Street Festival, 23 August 2008

On March the 14th 2009, UK’s The Guardian published a short piece on the longevity of Magicians. It talks about how magic as an art form has survived thousands of years since its beginnings.

” From the burning of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584 – arguably the first book about conjuring – to the coming of television”

” They have been entertaining since well before Pepys observed them in the 1660s, and are now enjoying a vogue by dint of getting ever more skilled at what they do. They now work at parties, pubs and nightclubs. Or else surrounded by spectators watching every muscle movement in street markets or on television – or, in the case of performers like the American Criss Angel,”

For the full article, you can view it here!