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‘Derren Brown: Underground’ is a collection of some of the very best of Derren’s previous stage work.

 

The Charing Cross Theatre is small, intimate, discrete, and indeed, Underground. This is a one off opportunity to see Derren in this type of location and is made up of a very limited number of performances. If you want to see Derren perform his own choice of some of his favourite work then this is the show to see.

 

Please move fast as tickets will sell out very quickly.

 

Buy tickets on Ticketmaster

 

Derren Brown talks about happiness, the subject of his latest book, Happy.

This is your chance to meet the man and delve into his extraordinary mind.

The talk will be followed by an extended time for Derren to answer any questions you might have.

Early booking recommended.



Saturday 24th September – Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells – Tickets not on sale at time of posting this, please check their website.

Sunday 25th September – The Anvil, Basingstoke

Saturday, 1st October – Concert hall, Reading – Tickets not on sale at time of posting this, please check their website.

Friday 21st October – The Hawth, Crawley



More dates to be announced.

9pm Tuesday 12th January on Channel 4.

Please send videos (less than 45 seconds) or photos that captures a special event or moment in your life. It doesn’t matter what it is so long as it is something you value as being a precious to you. No matter how momentous or silly you think it may feel. Perhaps taking part in a race you didn’t think you could finish, the moment you first saw a video of your baby on a scan, a photo or video with friends or loved ones that captures a moment that words cannot… Just so long as the photo or video isn’t rude, explicit or contains anything that will make us blush.

 

It would be great if you could include no more than 100 words about why this moment is so special to you. Only a few words if you like, it really doesn’t matter. It will just allow us to understand its context and meaning. We’ll be using it for a video we’re putting together to coincide with the tour for next year. Finally we ask that you only send in content if you are over 18 and solely own the copyright to your video or photo.

 

Format:

Videos: please send landscape videos in .mov format, preferably without compressing or reducing the picture or quality. 45 seconds or less. Ideally HD / 1920 x 1080 but if not, the best quality you have available.

Photos: please avoid compressing or reducing the size of your original.

 

A video or photo is fine. No more than two in total when you submit them.

 

If we choose your content, we will email you to ask for you to assign us the copyright that will allow us to use it for our purpose. This is your choice and we will email you to request permission to use your video(s) and/or photo(s).

 

Checklist:

Please send all of the following before Friday 12pm on 21st August via WeTransfer.com. If you haven’t used it before, WeTransfer allows you to send larger files that we wouldn’t be able to receive via email. There is no need to sign up to the service if you don’t want to, just select skip and enter the following;

 

1) On WeTransfer.com use add files to attach your videos and/or photo (don’t forget, 45 seconds or less and please keep them as high quality as possible and avoid compressing).

2) Friend’s email – that’s us! Please enter [email protected] – please don’t send your videos or pictures as attachments directly to us and only here, via WeTransfer.

3) Your email

4) Message. Please include contact details; your name, age, address and email. Vaudeville Productions Limited will keep your details just to enable us to contact you should we need to for the purpose of requesting copyright permission.

5) Please write 100 words or less about your moment. Maybe just a few words, so long as we know. Please also Include this in the ‘message’ section of WeTransfer.

 

Again, please only use WeTransfer and avoid sending anything directly to us as we won’t be able to receive it.

 

Thank you,

 

Vaudeville Productions Limited.

The least talked about* show of the past year is back on the road!



Derren Brown: INFAMOUS is is now touring theatres across the UK, so if you didn’t get the chance to see Derren performing his jaw-dropping new live show last year – this is your last chance! When the current tour ends, it will not be performed again.







Tickets are selling very quickly, so check our tour page to find and contact your nearest venue as soon as you can if you want to see Derren doing what he does best, live and onstage.



If you would like a memento of the Derren Brown: INFAMOUS tour, we have the exclusive 2014 edition of the tour mug:







And we now have the tour poster – which has been specially designed to look fantastic on every wall in the country:







Both are available in the store and both are limited edition, so once we sell all the ones that we have – they’ll never be available again.



*Derren has asked every audience that came to see INFAMOUS last year to keep the content of the show a secret, so as not to spoil it for all of you. Because he’s nice like that.

The 2014 leg of Infamous starts on Tuesday in Brighton. It’s all very exciting. If you’re coming to see it, I really hope you enjoy the show – a lot of work and love goes into it. In the past I’ve always done my best to come out to stage door after and sign things and say hello, but this year, the eleventh year (I think) of touring, I’m going to have to stop doing that. This is a big shame, at least for me, as I always enjoy meeting people after the shows and I’m so grateful to anyone who buys a ticket and comes out to see it. The reason is – as some of you will know who have come on nights when I haven’t been able to come outside – my voice. Last year I had to cancel a couple of shows in the West End which is an appalling business, and I’m determined not to let that happen again. For weeks before that, my voice was a mess and I was back and forth to the hospital getting fixed up as well as I could. Looking after my voice is a big part of the show – hence I do a lot of vocal training and the like. And this is the longest tour I will have done. The moment my voice gets tired, I have to go into shut-down mode: no hanging around outside, no talking, a strangely monastic existence until the next show begins. The result last year was that on about, I don’t know, a third of the tour dates I couldn’t go out afterwards. Whereas I used to find 10-20 people and I would spend proper time having a nice relaxed chat, the numbers are now more like 60-100 people, which is amazing and wonderful, but I can no longer chat and sign AND be sure to keep my voice in shape for a six month tour of a two-hour one-man show six nights a week.



I apologise hugely to anyone who was hoping to say hello. I hope you’ll understand even if it’s a bit disappointing. There’ll be some who for whatever reason will be unable to summon any understanding, and will treat this as me just ‘not being bothered’. Most times I’ve apologised in the past for not coming out to sign, I’ve read similar comments telling me I’m just selfish and lazy, and that I owe it to my fans to spend time with them afterwards etc. That’ll happen again of course, and there’s not much I can do other than offer this explanation and apology. I promise that in the past I’ve spent far more time after shows with people than any other performer I know. This isn’t a lazy choice, and the thing I definitely do owe to fans is to put on the best show I possibly can, which is what this is about preserving. Any of you who work in theatre will already understand how this voice business is, and I hope any others of you who had hoped to say hello will understand too. And above all that you enjoy the show.



Dxx

 

 

More than a few of you were surprised to learn, on closer inspection, that this image for the new show ‘The Great Art Robbery’ was not a painting on a canvas – but in fact a painting on Derren’s face.



So we thought you may be interested to take a peek into the process that brought this particular work of art to life with some behind the scenes snaps and a little video.



Enjoy…

In this brand new episode, master illusionist and showman Derren Brown plans to pull off the perfect crime: He’s bet renowned art collector Ivan Massow, that he can steal a […]

In this brand new episode, master illusionist and showman Derren Brown plans to pull off the perfect crime: He’s bet renowned art collector Ivan Massow, that he can steal a painting from right under his nose. In true Derren style, he will tell him exactly which painting he plans to target – a work by Turner-nominated British brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman no less – as well as what time the theft will happen. He’ll even give him a photograph of the person that’s going to take it.







In order to pull off the theft Derren recruits a crew. But he’s not going to use career criminals or skilled cat burglars. He’s going to use members of society that tend to slip by unnoticed. He’s going to use old age pensioners.



Over a series of uplifting tests and training missions viewers will see Derren teach his senior citizens the core skills needed to pull off the gallery theft: how to move together in perfect synchronicity and with perfect timing; how to deceive a security guard who will be expecting the theft to take place; and how to hold their nerve when they’re most under pressure. This builds to the edge-of-seat finale: the attempt of the team to steal the painting under impossible conditions.