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From: trentretro
Date: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:28pm
Subject: Re: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage)
right, how on earth does that work then?
--- In a previous message ganetauk wrote:
> Its a typical priming for cold reading effect
>
> --- In a previous message trentretro
> wrote:
> > 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!)
