Purple Background. Person on the right is holding onto an Indian Passport. There's a Purple Bar over his eyes, like a "redacted" identity. On the left is text: "I want to be The World's Greatest Magician".
People are seated around a table. On the head of the table is the magician. He has an obviously fake moustache on as he's taking you through a card trick.
Magician on stage is making a snowstorm appear from the palm of his hands.

I want to be the World's Greatest Magician

A Show about Immigration that was Cancelled in New York because my visa expired.

In I Want To Be The World’s Greatest Magician, nothing unfolds the way the audience thinks it will. The format constantly shifts from close-up magic into monologue, mime, and moments of audience interaction — turning simple objects like playing cards and string into snapshots of isolation, ambition, and the uneasy idea of “home.”

You’ll witness impossible things up close: border agents demanding tricks at 3am, careers stalled by paperwork, and moments so absurd they feel like resurrecting the dead just to say: “F**k You” and then, “Thanks”. 

You’ll laugh at the ridiculousness. You’ll feel the frustration. And by the end, you’ll understand why stopping isn’t an option.

This is not an ordinary magic show. It’s a raw, intimate experience about belonging, ambition, and refusing to disappear.

Australian Premiere — Direct from Off-Broadway, NYC

Performed by Annanya George

For weeknight ticket purchasers, bring the most "interesting" objects you can fit in your hand and we will improvise a magic trick with it in our show.

Magic • Performance Art
United States • Australian Premiere
 
d/Deaf and/or Lived Experience of Disability Shows
 
Culturally and/or linguistically diverse
 
Tue, 10 Mar - Sun, 22 Mar
 
60 min
 
Tandanya Theatre at Gluttony at Tandanya
 
R18+ (2 Warnings)
 
$25 to $38
 
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