点评:We booked into the Conviction by Dean Jacob show as part of the Spike Island After Dark tour on Oct. 30th.
The tour beings as you leave Cobh for the island ahead, your given a safety briefing and brought around the prison to hear the stories and atrocities that have happened at these different locations on the island, afterwhich your brought to a large warehouse style venue with what I can only describe as canons and huge war time guns on display with a large stage curtain, lights and chairs in the middle of it.
After a brief message from a host Dean is welcomed on stage to applause and the show beings....
This was our first time seeing Mr. Jacob perform, we have seen performs such as Derren Brown before, I can't describe the joy I felt in my heart when I very soon realised we were seeing a performer of the same calibre right there on an island off the coast of Ireland. His stage presence is incredible and his ability to hold an audiences attention is jaw-dropping in itself, however the content of the show, if you could call those tricks because I didnt see a single trick element to any of these, he simply asked people to think of anything on earth, they did and he told them exactly what they were thinking, alongside playing Russian Roulette with industrial strength staple guns which I and my husband checked out extensively before he started that part of the show we even got to check the stapled card to the pad afterwards, I cant put into words how incredible his show was. The ending the most genuinely jaw dropping heart stopping UNBELIEVABLE ending we have ever witnessed! We were talking about it the entire journey home and are no closer to a solution now as we were then.
Incredible stuff we will be back again, however we would LOVE to welcome Mr. Jacob to our lovely city and theatre here in Derry if he should plan a show here.
Thank you for an amazing night to both Spike island and Dean Jacob!
翻译:10月30日,我们报名参加了“斯派克岛夜游”活动,并观看了迪恩·雅各布执导的《Conviction》演出。
游览从离开科夫、前往岛屿的途中开始:导游会先进行安全说明,随后带我们环绕监狱一圈,讲述岛上各个地点曾发生过的故事与暴行。之后,我们被带到一个类似大型仓库的场地,那里陈列着我只能称之为大炮及巨型战时火炮的物品,还有一个巨大的舞台幕布。舞台中央有灯光和椅子。
在主持人简短致辞后,迪恩在掌声中登台,演出由此开始……
这是我们第一次观看雅各布先生的表演。我们之前也看过德里恩·布朗等人的演出。当我很快意识到自己正在爱尔兰海岸边的一座小岛上观赏一位同样水准的表演者时,内心的喜悦简直无法用言语来形容。他的舞台表现力令人惊叹,能牢牢吸引观众的注意力这一能力也着实令人咋舌。不过至于演出的内容——如果那些能被称作魔术的话,因为我完全没看出其中有任何魔术元素——他只是让观众在脑海中想任意一件事,然后他便能准确说出他们在想什么。除了玩那种用工业级订书机进行的“俄罗斯轮盘赌”游戏之外——在我丈夫表演那部分节目之前,我们俩还仔细测试过那些订书机;甚至在表演结束后我们还检查了被订在垫板上的卡片——我实在无法用言语来形容他的表演有多么精彩。结尾部分更是名副其实地令人瞠目结舌、心跳骤停,绝对是不可思议的完美收尾!我们在回家的路上一直在谈论这场演出,可到现在依然想不出该如何来形容它。太棒了!我们一定会再来的。不过,如果雅各布先生打算在这里举办演出,我们非常希望能欢迎他来到我们美丽的德里市以及这里的剧院。
感谢斯派克岛乐队和迪恩·雅各布为我们带来这样一个难忘的夜晚!