The Experience of Magic Online in the New Normal

Good News! I have relaunched my children’s shows online! https://www.picklelilycircus.co.uk/zoom-magic-show.html To be honest, I was apprehensive about the experience of performing online. The concern was that I wouldn’t be able to create the atmosphere for my online audience of little people. That they would lose engagement and interest and wander off away from the screen.…

A Return To The Theatre

Saturday 3rd October was a good day! It was the first day back in a theatre performing since the beginning of lockdown in March 2020. Like many working in performing arts, I watched in horror as every single show cancelled. Since then it has been a catalogue of postponements and cancellations. I have gone from…

You are the magician in your own life

“You are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.” – Eugene Burger In July I had some surprising news! Dr Lawrence Hass who is the the Dean of the McBride Magic and Mystery School in Las Vegas wrote to me. He wrote to let me know that…

Tarot byZoom

Dear Reader, My adventures and travels amongst you have been somewhat curtailed this year. I find I must write to you to let you know that I am providing inspirational and insightful tarot card readings. I invite you to join me in my Parlour of Paranormality, where I shall look into the depth and nature…

The sex and the seance

In this article we will delve into the world of the seance room in the Victorian Era. We will peek at the link between spiritualism, magic and the repression of women. From the 1880s medics began to pathologise spiritualism with Female Hysteria. The idea of hysteria has been somewhat trivialised by todays Internet memes. These…