Verbal Magic by Juan Tamariz - Book

Imagine guiding an audience through a magic effect using only your voice, while the cards are in their hands. In Verbal Magic, Juan Tamariz shares more than forty participatory tricks and presentations created for radio, television, close-up and theater audiences.

Readers follow detailed transcripts from Tamariz’s radio broadcasts, then learn how to present the effects to their own audiences. The demonstrations use a few playing cards, pieces of paper and other common objects, with examples including an Oil and Water effect and spectators discovering their own selected cards.

• More than forty effects: Explore a substantial collection of magic designed to happen in the audience’s hands and heads.
• Detailed radio transcripts: Follow Tamariz’s presentations and see how he guides listeners through each experience.
• Built through performance: The presentations were refined and tested in professional performances.
• Ideas to develop: The book also shares principles and tools for creating further effects.
• Hardcover edition: This deluxe hardcover book contains 176 pages.

Transcribed by Gema Navarro under Tamariz’s guidance, the book offers a close look at how a master magician entertains and mystifies an audience. Use its radio-inspired approach to bring a different kind of participation to your next close-up or theater performance.