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From: trentretro
Date: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:09pm
Subject: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage)
okay, heres how it went, I don't really understand what or why it
happened which is why I'm posting.
right, we get to the theatre fairly earlier and are standing in the
bar with drinks, we over hear a conversation this couple behind us
are having with this guy with an ear thingy and a clipboard, we hear
him saying he's the producer and also the woman telling him they
bought their tickets in January and came all the way from grimsby.
After the producers bloke wanders off I ask the couple what he said
and they told me this;
the producers had said the second half was about 'contacting the
dead' and the woman should think of some dead person she knew and
jot down a few details about them on a peice of paper (which she
kept and never showed the producer).
So at the end of the first half derren tels us not to come back if
we are uncomfertable with 'contacting the dead' and in the break to
think of someone we know who has died.
so the second half begins and near the end he comes up with (in a
very spooky mind cotrol way but I'm not saying how) a row letter and
a name, who, yes you've guessed it, turns out to be the woman I
spoke to earlier, who the producers also spoke to. So she goes up
on stage and he gives the name a details of the dead person she'd
written down before the show (but derren never mentioned her
writting this down and neither did she).
so after the show we're back in the bar (honestly, I'm not a heavy
drinker, I was just waiting around for derren to emerge) and I see
this woman again, so I go up to her and tell her I have to know what
happened. And she tells me derren was spot on pretty much about who
she was thinking about and showed me the bit of paper she'd written
it down on which had been up her sleve the whole time of the show
(both halves) and she had never shown the producer or told him
anything of what was on it.
so . . . they'd obviously planned to get her on stage in teh second
half and it was no coincidence (she was the only person I saw the
producer talk to) but she wasn't a plant and she didn't tell anyone
who this dead person was so derren did manage to get that on his
own, surely? And the talking to her before hand was becuase? . . .
perhaps to establish where she was sitting for when derren asked if
there was anybody in that row with that name, or for some other
reason? I'm confused why the producer spoke to her beofre the show
and asked her to write the stuff down (but like I keep saying, she
says he never read it - and she was slightly freaked out that
derren 'read' her mind). Anyone got any ideas on this?
like I said on my other post about the show this woman, and all the
others up on stage that I spoke to or heard talking, were convinced
that they hadn't been set up in any way and what happened to them
was just as the rest of us saw it, so derren wasn't cheating (too
much anyway, he always cheats which is why he wins most of the time!)
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 3626: Re: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage) | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Sun 23/03/2003 | 2 KB |
| 3627: Re: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage) | ganetauk | ganetauk | Sun 23/03/2003 | 5 KB |
| 3628: Re: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage) | trentretro | trentretro | Sun 23/03/2003 | 5 KB |
