Keith
Fields
Lecturer and Magical Inventor
From a review of Keith Fields Lecture at the magic Circle in London
Review by John Derris and published in the Magic Circular
The Fields File
I saw Keith Fields winning performance in the Magic CIrcle Close-Up Magician Of The Year Competition a few months ago. This being my first experience of his work I marked him down as a comedian who did tricks and was known to partially earn his living doing warm-ups for TV productions.
How wrong I was!
His lecture, titled The Fields File, revealed a real natural talent and a well experienced magical brain that is highly tuned and well read in creating devious but simple routines that lift his magic way above the everyday. Here was a man who could instantly connect with an audience making them quickly regard him as a friend, who had the ability to make off-the-cuff lines and presented a variety of excellent, well thought out effects and routines.
His style and magic confirm why he is one of Britains busiest magicians covering a whole spectrum of magic... He possesses the one ingredient that eludes many aspiring performers: Like Don Alan he knows how to blend humour and good magic in square proportions to create that vital ingredient - entertainment.
...The long queue at the end of the lecture to purchase notes and other items surely confirmed to him the warmth of the acceptance by the Circle members and their appreciation of the value of the excellent magic that he freely demonstrated. The thing that was not on sale was his personality and style of presentation that contributes so much to this very successful professional.
