With the rise of illusionists such as Derren Brown, simple tricks don’t fool us anymore.

There was even a theatre here, The Egyptian Hall, especially built for magic and mystery shows,” he says.ĭespite this, magicians as popular entertainers are not what they once were, either in famed escapologist Harry Houdini’s time, or even 15 years ago. “It’s good to have the show in London because 100 years ago it was the biggest city in the world for magic. London is, in many respects, the home of magic as a large crowd performance show – something Klok, a performer with 25 years’ experience and a six-month-running Las Vegas show, The Beauty Of Magic, under his belt, knows. It’s a style designed for the stage and for performance, and so it couldn’t be more suited to its owner, the energetic, acrobatic, Dutch magician, who brings his circus-cum-magic show The Houdini Experience to the capital for a five-week run. A blond mane of epic proportions that’s halfway between an Eighties Duran Duran video and Mufasa from The Lion King. The first thing you notice about Hans Klok, the “fastest magician in the world“, is his hair.

Houdini's magic shop caesars palace