![]() The show plays upon the duality of theatre and the way it uses sleight of hand and sleight of mind to make us see what does not exist. Their story is told in Impossible, a play that premieres at the Pleasance on the Edinburgh fringe with Phill Jupitus as Conan Doyle and Alan Cox as Houdini. Since it often also involves the audience suspending disbelief, it is a good place to explore the tale of the two men, one who believed the most important thing was to “ prove immortality”, and one who feared it was impossible. It has been described by Alice Rayner in Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomena of Theatre as “a specific site where appearance and disappearance reproduce the relations between the living and the dead”. The theatre is a place where ghosts rise. ![]() Phill Jupitus as Conan Doyle and Alan Cox as Houdini in Impossible, premiering at this year’s Edinburgh festival.
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