Ben Hart: Wonder
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex
Suspended
The Grand - Pleasance Courtyard
Suitable for ages 12 and above
Overview

Important information:
2 for 1 through Pleasance available Mon 10th & Tues 11th - applied automatically on full price tickets.
Described by David Walliams as ‘the living embodiment of magic’, Ben has recently completed a sold-out 60-date theatre tour of the UK and Europe, with more dates being added due to popular demand. He has played to royalty, heads of state and celebrities, in West End theatres, international arenas and on dozens of UK and international TV appearances (including The One Show and BBC One’s Now You See It).
Expect his most mind-blowing and exciting magic in a show that shines a light on magic, life, the universe and the darkest corners of your imaginations. With the simplest of props, using the objects and minds of the audience, Ben Hart conjures an altogether new kind of magic.
2 for 1 through Pleasance available Mon 10th & Tues 11th - applied automatically on full price tickets.
2020 – America's Got Talent: The Champions, NBC
2019 – Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions, ITV
2019 – Third Place – Britain's Got Talent - ITV
2019 – Winner – Bank SA Weekly - Best Magic Show Award - Adelaide Fringe Festival
2018 – Winner – Marvin Rising Star Award - The Magic Circle
2018 – Ten Top Fringe Act - Herald Scotland Luxury Magazine - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2018 – Festival Highlight - The Sun - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2018 – Winner – Mervyn Stutter's Sprit of the Fringe Awards - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2017 – Best Magic Shows to see - The List - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2017 – Pick of the Programme, Cabaret -Broadway World - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2017 – Top Magic Shows to See -The Scotsman - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2017 – Member – The Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star - The Magic Circle
2014 - Winner - Best Non-Competitive Reality Show for Killer Magic, BBC3 - National Reality Television Awards
2013 – Nominee – Time Out TO&ST Cabaret award - Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2009 – Winner – Young Magician of the Year - The Magic Circle
2007 - Winner - The Irving Schneider Award Scholarship - The Magic Circle
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The Scotsman: Britain's Got Talent magician Ben Hart to create mind-blowing new magic for Edinburgh Fringe
Q: It might only be February but already thoughts are turning to the Fringe with the 29-year-old magician announcing that, following his hugely successful 60 date debut tour of the UK, he will make his highly anticipated Fringe return at The Pleasance, after four total sell-out critically acclaimed previous shows. Funny, subversive, often dark and always amazing, Hart has established a reputation for always creating wonderfully alternative magic. At the age of 16 he was awarded the prestigious Young Magician of the Year Award by the Magic Circle and is one of the youngest ever members of The Inner Magic Circle with gold star - the highest level of the famous Magic Circle.
A: I’m delighted to be returning for 2020 with my show Wonder. The Fringe is a magical place - it is a melting pot of creativity and expression. The audiences at the Fringe as discerning, but they are also adventurous - the perfect crowds to play with. Somehow, as if by magic, I find myself preparing to perform my show in the behemoth of the Pleasance Grand, one of the largest venues of the Fringe. It seems a long way from the dingy basement of my first Fringe.
Q: For 2020, Hart, who has invented tricks for some of the biggest names in magic including Penn and Teller and was the mind behind the acclaimed special effects in the recent production of The Exorcist at the King’s, will create new illusions for August.
A: Edinburgh forces me to develop new material, for audiences return year after year to see what new ideas I have had - that does create a certain kind of pressure. Developing a magic trick is a terrifying prospect for a magician. Magic is totally binary, it either fools an audience or it doesn’t. This means that a new idea cannot truly be understood in rehearsals or on paper. It has to be performed in the hope of creating wonder and the audience reactions have to be studied. It doesn’t exist without an audience. It has to be honed over time in the hope that simple secrets can be transformed like alchemy into something that feels like magic
Q: Expect Wonder, Hart's most mind-blowing show yet to shine a light on magic, life, the universe and the darkest corners of your imaginations. With the simplest of props, using the objects and minds of the audience, he will conjure an altogether new kind of magic.
A: Each Fringe I bring a new show to Edinburgh as a pile of hopeful, inanimate props, totally without magic to me, for I know the secrets, and I get to watch the audience breathe wonderment into them and suddenly I can see the magic through their eyes completely without guilt or trickery, reflected back at me.