Image Credit: Alex Brenner

Image Credit: Alex Brenner

Image Credit: Alex Brenner

In Someone Loves You Drive With Care, Tom Cassani exposes the techniques of deception, and teaches how to spot it in action. Stripping back any physical means of trickery, he works closely with the audience to explore and expose deception and truth, and the fine line between the two.

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Watch everyday action turn into the impossible. Explore moments in time that might have happened, that have never happened, and that will never happen. How might this relate to holding a stranger’s hand? Or crying? Or being born at the same time as a tree?

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Tom invites you to investigate his relationship with a practice founded on bending the truth and being honest about doing just that.

'Tom Cassani’s Someone Loves You Drive With Care is a tricky show. It writhes around, resisting both definition (is it magic, or lecture, or theatre, or all, or none?) and our attempts to weed out its trickery. A mesmeric exposure of deception, performance, and the overlap of their shared Venn diagram’ Flare Festival - Linford Butler 2017. Full review here

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Written & performed by Tom Cassani

Dramaturg & Direction: Peader Kirk

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Winner of 1st prize Birmingham European festival 2018, Best of BE UK and Best of BE UK tour 2018-19, Co-commissioned by hÅb + Contact for Works Ahead. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Part of the SPILL National Platform 2016.

Colliding showmanship, scepticism and almost miracles.

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We can all walk on broken glass as carefree as if it were sand beneath our feet. We can all put our hands straight into the fire and not leave a mark If we needed to.

None of these things are impossible but it’s ok to admit that they are hard. That this time is hard.

Tom Cassani twists showman’s patter to preach the importance of remaining wary of those who make extraordinary claims. Lying is done with words and also silence. I promise you that tonight.

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‘Cassani is hurtling towards exciting creative territory. If you’re a fan of magic, contemporary performance, or seeking out the truth, this performance is 100% for you’. Number 9 Reviews - Sam Lowe 6/11/19. Full review here

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Read Tom's Run Riot blog post on the show here

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Written & performed by Tom Cassani
Dramaturg & Direction: Peader Kirk
Lighting Designer: Nigel Edwards

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A hÅb commission, Supported by Arts Council England, BE Festival and Metal Peterborough.

Image Credit: Alex Brenner

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Strange Boy is the cabaret character of artist Tom Cassani. Strange Boy has spent many years learning how to do very strange things very well. Strange Boy combines prestidigitation, body horror, magic and contemporary sideshow to conjure up almost impossible images and illusions of the surreal world he finds himself in most days. 

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Image Credit: Alex Brenner

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