For a strictly limited season, Queenslanders can expect to be spellbound by multi-sensory thrills when Maho Magic Bar and DARKFIELD’s ‘Seance’ and ‘Flight’ arrive at South Bank’s Maritime Museum this October.
The iconic Japanese Maho Magic Bar from Broad Encounters first delighted and stunned Brisbane audiences in 2022, playing to packed houses with rave reviews. Now it’s headed back with fresh tricksters, fresh tricks, and fresh cocktails, to transport audiences to a neon-lit Tokyo night.
Plus, DARKFIELD will make its long-awaited return to Brisbane with their shipping container experiences ‘Seance’ and ‘Flight’, following record-breaking seasons around the country which welcomed more than 300,000 Australians. The experiences, produced by Realscape Productions, inputted audiences into shipping containers where strange and mysterious worlds unfold.
‘Seance’ explores the psychology of a group of people who have been bombarded with suggestible material. In complete darkness, your senses will become vulnerable to persuasion. Then, in ‘Flight’, audience members are transported through two worlds. Two realities. Two outcomes to their journey. No matter how ill-advised your choices, there’s a version of you who made better ones, and who is experiencing less regret and embarrassment.
“Maho Magic Bar’s dazzling lights and laughter-filled show was the highlight of Brisbane Festival in 2022 and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be bringing it back, alongside the immersive brilliance of DARKFIELD’s ‘Seance’ and Flight’,” Broad Encounters Creative Director Kirsten Siddle says. “With a fresh line-up of sleight-of-hand prodigies found in the tumultuous back streets of Japan’s famed night-life districts, you couldn’t ask for a better night out in ‘Tokyo’ at Maho Magic Bar!”
“DARKFIELD fans in Brisbane have been waiting patiently for our return for a long time now, so we’re thrilled to bring them back to the sunshine state alongside Maho Magic Bar, at a site dedicated to thrillseekers,” Realscape Productions Producer Amy Johnson adds.
Maho Magic Bar and DARKFIELD’s ‘Seance’ and ‘Flight’ are on at Maritime Museum (South Brisbane) 3 October-8 December.
