Derren Brown is no stranger to rave reviews. However, this is something different. Ben Brantley of the New York Times Arts Beat blog delivers such gushing prose for Brown’s new show Enigma you’ll be finding bits of hyperbole behind your ears for weeks.
Brown even gets compared favorably to The Bard himself…
For his big finale, he enlists the whole audience in arranging seven of its members on stage into patterns of. . . Well, that would be telling. Suffice it to say that he creates the illusion that nothing, after all, is random, that beneath the surface, everything ties together and rhymes as if in a perfectly structured sonnet. I found myself unexpectedly thinking of the final scenes of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedies, wherein the impossibly tangled sorts itself out and grateful wonder rules.
Congratulations to Team Brown, this is really one for the scrap book.