Magic

Chichester

Type:Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6AP

Tel: 01243 781312

A dark-haired man with a determined expression is running through a brick wall. A stark spotlight is shining directly on him. A man with a neat mousta

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Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, even as they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son; Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of these sparring partners will be proved right: the genius writer of fiction or the infallible magician?

Based on extraordinary historical events, Magic asks what we're prepared to believe, and why.

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Season (24 Apr 2026 - 16 May 2026)

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