Curtain Call by Barrie Richardson Book (B0228)

Once More into Their Minds, Dear Friends!

Ask
working performers, who has created the most practical and impressive
mentalism in recent times and one of the first names you will hear is Barrie Richardson. Curtain Call
is Mr. Richardson’s third major collection of mentalism, and in it he
has held nothing back. He opens with the full details for his entire
professional act, follows up with dozens of wonderful tricks, routines
and tools for the mentalist, and concludes with a unique piece that
always brings a strong emotional response and a spontaneous ovation from
his audiences.

Barrie Richardson has a reputation for
devising impenetrable mental mysteries that float upon multiple layers
of deception. This is combined with a disconcerting directness that
achieves the effect with minimal procedure and maximum power.

Whether
you are a fan or are encountering Barrie Richardson’s work for the
first time, if you enjoy theatrical, commercial and cunningly
constructed mentalism, Curtain Call will fulfill your desires and expectations.

Curtain Call
gathers the finest fruits of Barrie Richardson’s creativity during
recent years and embellishes the material he has been perfecting in
performance for a decade and more. Included are many of his most guarded
pieces…

• An old key that turns and crawls eerily in the hand.
  Is it haunted? Is it psychokinesis? The effect meets and exceeds that
  accomplished by expensive mechanical keys, but uses an ungimmicked key
  that may be thoroughly examined before and after.
• An ordinary
  pencil, lying across the open hand levitates in full light. Then, when
  someone is asked to lift it off the hand, he finds it impossible! Once
  the magnetic suggestion is removed, the pencil may be effortlessly taken
  and examined.
• The mentalist writes down a target word. Someone
  then takes an imaginary stroll through a bookshop, chooses any book,
  any page and any word. When the word is revealed it proves to be the
  performer’s target word! The person is then asked to concentrate on the
  mentally chosen page number in the imaginary book – and someone from the
  audience divines it!
• Incredibly powerful tools for the
  mentalist are revealed. Among them are some of the most deceptive billet
  peeks and switches ever published; a new gimmicked envelope that
  permits the contents to be glimpsed or stolen, yet can be freely handled
  by spectators; a perfected standing switch of a full deck of cards. All
  have fooled expert performers as well as the public.
• In the
  past, Mr. Richardson has gained a reputation for coming up with some of
  the best and most practical methods for the elusive Card at Any Number
  effect. In Curtain Call he reveals what he considers his finest version, done with an ordinary and legitimately shuffled deck.

In this book you needn’t worry about what is behind the curtain. The reality will be thrilling!

263 pages in deluxe hardcover.

“The book, the tricks it
contains, and the
important teaching that underlies it all manage at once to be both
spectacular and understated. Just like Barrie Richardson himself.”


Eric Mead, Genii Magazine 8/1/2011