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Derren Brown's Secret DECEMBER 2019• $6.50 THE CONJURORS’ MAGAZINE CONJURORS’ THE Genii BrownDerren 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 1 11/12/19 9:16 PM Derren SecretBrown’s By Chloe Olewitz This is a story I made up. It is a narrative I concocted, as we all do, after rooting around in the infinite data source that is our human condition to develop a definitive understanding of one man. This man is trapped by the storytelling imperative, a unique affliction of our species, as we all are. He tells his own stories, and keeps secrets too. This is a story about Derren Brown. This story is not made up in that it is untrue, but is rather fabricated in the spirit of Brown’s notion that our conceptions of reality are born from the stories we tell ourselves. It’s this spirit that guides Derren Brown: Secret, his one-man show currently playing at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. 40 GENII 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 40 11/12/19 7:15 PM DECEMBER 2019 41 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 41 11/12/19 7:15 PM This story is about a magician, or mentalist, or psychological illusionist, a man whose prescient surrender to a perfect storm of opportunity soldered his unstoppable talent to his fierce intellect, electrifying an unparalleled, international career and catapulting a singular showman into a class all his own. rown was born in Croydon He felt impressive. Powerful. Larger than in 1971 and raised in Purley life. Stage hypnosis led him to magic and in South London. Around to mentalism—more mass, more power— the age most young magi- and he made a modest living working cians first get bit by magic, restaurant gigs for a while. BBrown found the Bible. He was picked In 1999, Brown was asked to London on as a child—precocious, smart, artis- for a meeting with Objective Productions tic—and learned to use his charms to co-founders Michael Vine and Andrew ingratiate himself with other kids. As a O’Connor, who had already spent two first-year studying law and German at the years searching for a mentalist to star University of Bristol, Brown saw a per- in their new television concept. Andy formance by hypnotist Martin Taylor and Nyman was the only other candidate pivoted almost immediately toward the under serious consideration, but he stage. Before long, the track toward law turned down the job to focus on his act- and German had run out of rail. ing and agreed to consult when they did He read his way into his first show as eventually find someone. At the meeting, a hypnotist, practicing what techniques Brown performed his effect, “Smoke,” in he could find in books on friends and which the cigarette he’d been happily performing at and around the university. puffing on transformed into the selected His dive into the world of stage hypnosis card. Vine and O’Connor were fried, and was also a true leap of faith; a Christian Brown became the one. student group protested one of his early Derren Brown: Mind Control aired on shows by counter-performing an exorcism. Channel 4 in 2000, followed by a second Brown felt his religious identity begin to season in 2001, a third in 2002, and a two- crumble, furthered by the discovery that year network contract after that. In 2003, his church-bred morality was at odds with the controversy over Derren Brown: Russian his sexuality. Roulette—in which Brown blindly fired a The Inside Your Mind DVD In the way that so many reformed revolver containing one bullet against his (2003) combined explana- believers do, Brown swung toward athe- skull five times, burying the single live tions and special features with selections from ism with a militant urgency that resembled round into a sandbag instead of his brain, Brown’s Mind Control faith. The rush of acceptance he had tasted all broadcast live on national television— series to form “a manual while winning over bullies with his wit spanned from media backlash to litigation of mind reading.” was supercharged when he stepped onto against the show’s creators and against the the stage. In an instant, he was in control. government for allowing its airing. Brown emerged from Roulette unscathed, of course, 42 GENII 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 42 11/12/19 7:15 PM PHOTO BY MATTHEW MURPHY PHOTO BY MATTHEW but the scandal had served its purpose. question of what he will and will not enjoy. As Jamy Ian Swiss wrote in this magazine In the sense that it allows for self-determi- in 2005: “In no uncertain terms, Derren nation built on decisions entirely within Brown had arrived.” his control, Brown’s joy-seeking seems The network deal expanded into a third aligned with stoicism. Happy, his most year, and then a fourth. Brown soon settled recent book for the general public, pro- into a cadence that would govern much vided an investigation into stoicism and a of his career, making television for half roadmap for recouping happiness from the the year and touring live shows around clutches of self-help. Brown doesn’t neces- the U.K. for the other half. Meanwhile, sarily see his behavior as a ploy for control, Objective Productions had grown from a but he also doesn’t consider himself a stoic. small, private operation to one of the larg- “Steering my own path is essentially est independent production companies about not doing what I don’t enjoy,” Brown in the country. Objective Media Group is says. “I don’t do very much. I mean I work responsible for almost 20 Derren Brown a lot, but there’s a tour and maybe one or productions, along with other recognizable two TV shows a year, because I don’t enjoy projects like Peep Show and The Real Hustle. them as much as the touring, so that’s what Now Brown runs a separate production feels right.” There are aspects of making company called Vaudeville with Vine and television that Brown does enjoy, but it’s O’Connor. “Before,” Brown says, “I was also a part of his schedule that serves a caught between Channel 4, which might very specific purpose. “Ultimately, without want six shows a year that I don’t want the TV, people aren’t going to come and to do, and Objective, who would want to see the shows. It’s much harder to fill those give Channel 4 what they want. I’ve got a theaters. The theaters are where I make my bit more control now over what I do, and money, but they’re also what I enjoy most,” it’s not their entire livelihood either so they Brown says. “There are talks of a tour in are happy for me to steer my own path.” the States, and all those things that would In Happy, Brown traces the The absence of any ladder-climbing follow on from it. But I’m 48, not 28, so I concept of happiness from the ambition or starry-eyed drive allows Brown just keep an eye on whether it’s going to Stoics and Epicureans to today’s to guide his life from the fundamental be enjoyable.” $10 billion self-help industry. DECEMBER 2019 43 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 43 11/12/19 7:15 PM “...if you’re doing a show on Broadway or you’re doing a show at a small provincial theater around London, it’s the same experience on stage,” Brown says. “You’ve got the same spotlight in your eyes, every- thing else is just black, it’s the same as far as doing the show goes ... I just love the experience MURPHY PHOTO BY MATTHEW of doing t is important to distinguish Derren if you’re doing a show on Broadway or the show.” Brown, the man, from Derren you’re doing a show at a small provin- Brown, the brand. Brown himself cial theater around London, it’s the same is not at all driven by the unend- experience on stage,” Brown says. “You’ve ing upward trajectory we consider got the same spotlight in your eyes, every- Imodern success. “How much do you need, thing else is just black, it’s the same as far really?” he asks. During the five-month as doing the show goes. There are other Broadway run of Derren Brown: Secret, he experiences that are different around it, has been living a happy existence in a city but from that point of view it doesn’t make he has long wanted to know. But he wasn’t much difference to me. I just love the aiming for Broadway, hungry to break out experience of doing the show.” in the U.S., or even looking to tick the Some of those other experiences are the box of seeing his name in lights on a Great thorns in Brown’s side; necessary evils like White Way marquee. a rigorous press schedule and the pres- All of that has happened, but Brown sure to do tricks on TV. He remembers isn’t much bothered by it. “To be honest, how, during his 20s, he would have been 44 GENII 2019 12 DEC Nov ED 11.indd 44 11/12/19 7:15 PM perfectly happy “singing for his supper” to satisfy his constant, survival-born desire to impress. “That was the only way I could connect with people,” he says. “Coming out is probably part of it, as well; you burst this sort of bubble that you’ve cre- ated needlessly, and you want to engage more honestly with life.
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