Dom Chambers: A Boy and His Deck ★★★★

Dom Chambers does not have the appearance of your typical magician or illusionist dressed his black jeans and hoodie, but he has been around the traps for a while being featured on America’s Got Talent, Penn and Teller Fool Us and the Broadway hit ‘The Illusionists’. In this show he does his best to make card tricks appear cool, and it really is quite a success! 

Chambers has clearly been into cards from a very young age, and he explores this throughout his show. He still uses his favourite deck of cards, and it soon becomes quite clear to the audience why they are his favourite when we get to see the images on them! 

Chambers was particularly obsessed as a teenager with receiving a “deck of legend” from an acclaimed master magician. By watching his online videos he too would try to emulate the card tricks and create his own, submitting them to the master for approval but disappointingly finding that he lacked “urbanity”. 

He is able to make card tricks more appealing to a wider audience by doing more than just your average card trick where the audience member picks a card at random from the deck, the deck is shuffled and then the card revealed, although he does do this on a much grander scale.

His tricks are slick and polished, but Chambers shows us that not only is he a great magician, he also perfectly times his comedy and is an excellent story teller. Like every good story teller, all of his digressions throughout the show that seemed somewhat irrelevant at the time, come to a grand pinnacle where all is revealed and deeply tied together with true mastery.

You will leave scratching your head in wonder, rubbing your sore cheeks from laughing, and with a new respect for how cool card tricks can really be!