Marc Paul on Building an Act That Lands

Source:
https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-uciih-1ba3f28

Marc Paul is one of the most experienced mentalists working today, and he’s incredibly generous with what he knows. I’m moving more into mentalism myself at the moment, so I took full advantage.
We talk about looking in the mirror and being honest about what kind of performer you are, sitting comfortably with stunned silence instead of a laugh, why billets are “psychologically invisible” even on a big stage, and the danger of letting clever props become the point. Then he gets into how he builds an act: blocks of time, never repeating a shape on stage, moving the method somewhere else in the show, and why you should write your act in half an hour and then stop changing it.
You don’t need to be a mentalist to get a lot from this one.
Marc: https://www.marcpaul.com/ (that’s Marc with a c). His latest release is Decisions, Decisions, Decisions from Alakazam, and his Penguin lectures and Vanishing Inc masterclass are well worth your time.
Books mentioned: Stage by Stage, Encore and Afterglow by John Graham, The Mind, Myth and Magic of David Berglas, and plenty of Stephen King.
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Thanks to Stuart Davis for editing.