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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2021 season. This season is now over.

A photo of a man with his hands in the air while several notes of money fall around him. He is wearing a faded trilby hat with a white long-sleeve shirt.
A photograph of a man wearing a trilby hat and a long-sleeve white shirt. He has his hands placed on either side of his face expressing a shocked emotion. The background features a light grey quilted material and a small yellow light fixture above the man’s head.
Adelaide Fringe 2021

2 Nuts for Dick Tricks: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Winner: Best Comedy Award weekly - Perth FRINGE WORLD Festival 2020

Check out 5 crazy characters, performing 5 mind-blowing magic tricks! Help this hapless psychic detective, as he hunts a hitman in a gritty 1930's mental asylum.

ALL NEW SA Premiere from Tim Motley, creator of the hit sellout shows, '6 Quick Dick Tricks' and 'Prohibition'...

★★★★★ "Amazing" Australian Stage.
★★★★½ "Jaw-dropping" The Advertiser.
★★★★★ "Hilarious" All Over Adelaide.
★★★★★ - "Incredible" Edmonton Journal.
★★★★½ "Tour de force" London Free Press.
★★★★ "Clever, tricky, funny" Glam Adelaide.
★★★★ "The best private detective magician mentalist comedian you'll ever see." Edmonton Sun.

Best Magic Award weekly - Adelaide Fringe
Funniest Show - London Fringe
Best of Fest - Ottawa Fringe

Check out this show in the city's East End at the beautiful and historic Ayers House, or at a suburban or regional location near you.

Presented by: Racing Sloth Productions

Tim Motley has been performing professionally for over 20 years as a comedian, mentalist, magician, actor, radio show host, improvisor, busker, and variety performer. He is well known to Fringe Festival patrons for combining comedy and magic with the film noir detective genre in such shows as “Prohibition”, “6 Quick Dick Tricks”, ”2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick,” and “Dirk Darrow: NCSSI”. These shows have toured Fringes around the world for nine years, have garnered 15 Fringe Festival awards, and have received many excellent reviews. Tim has created and toured internationally 7 solo shows and 3 cast shows to date. Originally from Philadelphia, he is now a full Australian citizen living in Adelaide, and has performed in 49 countries.
Magic • Comedy
South Australia • SA Premiere
Reviews
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    Subtle and not in your face.... A regular on the Fringe circuit for a reason. Highly recommended. - Pieta Sharpe, Perth Happenings

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    Murder, mystery, mayhem, and magic collide in this hilarious and entertaining one-man noir-inspired show - Tahnee Clarke, Fringefeed

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: PG
Family friendly: Yes
Sexual References: Occasional, Mild

Please note

Simulated cigarette smoke (e-cigarette with sugar water vapour. 0mg nicotine.)

Presenter

Presented by: Racing Sloth Productions

Tim Motley has been performing professionally for over 20 years as a comedian, mentalist, magician, actor, radio show host, improvisor, busker, and variety performer. He is well known to Fringe Festival patrons for combining comedy and magic with the film noir detective genre in such shows as “Prohibition”, “6 Quick Dick Tricks”, ”2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick,” and “Dirk Darrow: NCSSI”. These shows have toured Fringes around the world for nine years, have garnered 15 Fringe Festival awards, and have received many excellent reviews. Tim has created and toured internationally 7 solo shows and 3 cast shows to date. Originally from Philadelphia, he is now a full Australian citizen living in Adelaide, and has performed in 49 countries.