Britain’s bad boys of magic Kane & Abel are set to bring controversy and comedy to Adelaide as they rip-up the highly-regarded Magicians’ Code of Conduct in their show 'Breaking the Magicians’ Code'.
The twin brothers will break every single rule that magicians all over the globe hold dear to prove being bad can feel very good. This will include breaking codes such as ‘never reveal how a trick is done’ and ‘never perform a trick unless you have practiced’ to ‘never perform when people are eating’ and ‘never claim to have physic abilities’.
'Breaking the Magicians’ Code' will be making its Australian premiere following two highly successful years touring the United Kingdom, including sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 & 2016 and Glastonbury Festival of the Performing Arts. Kane & Abel were inspired to create a show that went against the grain after more than 15 years abiding by the Magicians’ Code of Conduct passed down to them by their grandfather Brian Francis.
“We, like all magicians, have spent our entire career following the advice of past magicians and abiding by the strict oath we all take when we become magicians. But we want to do something different, unique and original and that’s where the idea of the show comes from. Yes, we will reveal the secret behind a trick, but there is more to the show than that. We want to educate people on all the rules of the Magicians' Code of Conduct and then break every single one of them in a fun and amazing way. We are using these golden rules of how not to do magic as inspiration behind some mind-blowing and hilarious tricks,” Laurence Abel says.
Laurence first took up magic when his grandfather – a professional magician for more than 50 years – taught him a few tricks when he was in hospital with kidney failure. Luckily he recovered, but during his spell in hospital was bitten by a different bug – magic. It didn’t take long for Laurence’s identical twin brother Ed Kane to take up magic and that’s when the act really took off.
“Growing up in magic, I always viewed what my grandad did as impossible but when I saw Laurence could do it I thought, why can’t I. When we started performing tricks together I realised we had an opportunity to do something amazing. Any magician can vanish an object in one hand and reappear it in the other, but having four hands available to us means we can do things no other magician can,” Ed says.
