{"product_id":"9781839045776-magic","title":"Magic","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA play about the friendship\/rivalry between Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle and showman Harry Houdini, and their convictions about spiritualism. Premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. But while Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son, Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of them will be proved right: the genius writer of fiction or the master magician?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on extraordinary historical events, David Haig's play \u003cem\u003eMagic\u003c\/em\u003e asks what we're prepared to believe, and why. It was first performed at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026, directed by Lucy Bailey and starring Hadley Fraser as Houdini and Haig himself as Conan Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57380677517686,"sku":"9781839045776","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41089281.jpg?v=1778048860","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781839045776-magic","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}