{"product_id":"art-of-illusion-1","title":"Art of Illusion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'It's a matter of perception. The hands of time turn at the same speed for everyone. Yet a child waits what seems to be an eternity for summer, whilst an old man watches a year pass in the blinking of an eye.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's 1984, and as France play Yugoslavia in the Euros, a man meets a woman in a Parisian café. He's returning a bag that she lost on the Métro, but he doesn't tell her he stole it...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, he tells her the story of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, watchmaker, inventor, and master magician of the nineteenth century. Together they set out to find a vanished theatre beneath a bank vault in the Boulevard des Italiens, to break into a museum in the Trocadero, to uncover the mystery of the Mechanical Turk, to witness the birth of the Kinetograph... and to delve ever deeper into the Art of Illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Cercle des illusionnistes\u003c\/em\u003e by Alexis Michalik premiered in Paris in 2014 and won several Molière Awards. \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e, Waleed Akhtar's English translation, opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2022, directed by Tom Jackson Greaves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251126063448,"sku":"9781839041488","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781839041488.jpg?v=1781147722","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/art-of-illusion-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}