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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2022 season. This season is now over.

1930's detective glaring at camera in front of futuristic citi-scape.
Detective looking stunned.
Detective gaping in surprise in front of futuristic citi-scape.

Dirk Darrow: Magic of Future Past

Magic • Comedy
South Australia • SA Premiere

SA premiere from 15 time Fringe Festival award winner Tim Motley!
Magic Award - Adelaide Fringe 2019 and 2021. 
“Will leave you in awe” ★★★★★ Glam Adelaide, 2021. 

Gritty 1930s film-noir retro collides with futuristic sci-fi in this hilarious time-travelling stage magic spectacle!  Experience mind-reading revelations that will shatter your reality, propel you to the past, and Back To The Future. Charge your flux capacitors and sharpen your Blade Runners, cause there’s a new steely cyber-detective in the future and his name… is Dirk Darrow. 

Comedy Award - FRINGE WORLD, Perth. 
Funniest Show Award - London Fringe. 

"Amazing" ★★★★★ Australian Stage. 
“Incredible” ★★★★★ Edmonton Journal. 
“The best private detective magician mentalist comedian you’ll ever see” ★★★★ Edmonton Sun.

ABC Radio interview with Tim Motley by Masterchef Australia's Matt Preston about Dirk Darrow in 2021.

 

Please note: This event has had a time and date change, and changed spaces from 'The Gosling' to 'The May Wirth' and ‘Melba Spiegeltent’ at Gluttony - Rymill Park since the Adelaide Fringe Guide was printed.

Presented by: Racing Sloth Productions

Tim Motley has been performing professionally for 20 years in 49 countries as a comedian, mentalist, magician, actor, radio show host, improvisor, busker, and variety performer. He is best 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 Nuts for Dick Tricks”, ”2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick,” and “Dirk Darrow: NCSSI”. Tim has created and toured internationally 8 solo shows and 3 cast shows to date. Originally from Philadelphia and brandishing an American accent, he is now an Australian citizen living in Adelaide.

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