FOUR SUITS.
FIFTY-TWO CARDS.
ONE MURDER MYSTERY.
In the hands of a skilled magician, a simple, everyday deck of cards transforms into a vessel of wonder and (im)possibility, so it’s little surprise that for almost as long as there have been cards, there have been card tricks.
Seen through the eyes of some of the world’s best sleight-of-hand artists, Lost in the Shuffle is a multi-faceted look at this remarkable 400-year relationship that’s seen these simple playthings provide an endless source of miraculous inspiration for magicians throughout time.
“Will the greatest illusion of all prove to be that an ancient cold-case murder has been hiding under our noses all this time?”World champion and fourth-generation magician, Shawn Farquhar, has been surrounded by cards for as long as he can remember, but after a trip to France that he wondered why the court cards look the way they do. Of particular interest was the King of Hearts, also known as the “Suicide King” because he appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
Shawn believes there is a much more sinister story, that an actual medieval French king was assassinated at the hand of his own wife. Now Shawn is out to see if his theory’s true - will the greatest illusion of all prove to be that an ancient cold-case murder has been hiding under our noses all this time?
FEATURING FIVE OF THE WORLD’S BEST MAGICIANS
SHAWN FARQUHAR
Shawn Farquhar has been entertaining audiences around the globe for over three decades on stage and through television shows like The X-Files and Highlander and motion pictures like The Fly II. Shawn’s creativity and mastery has been acknowledged with virtually every award that the field has to offer. FISM (The International Federation of Magic Societies), the world’s largest magic organization, has awarded him both Stage Magician and Sleight of Hand Magician of the Year, making him the only magician in history to win both world championships. In 2009, at the Olympics of Magic in Beijing, China Shawn was awarded the highest award in magic, the Grand Prix World Championship.
ALEXANDRA DUVIVIER
One of the most prominent female members of the magic arts, Alexandra Duvivier has been the winner of the Mandrake d’Or in France, and the first French female magician to fool Penn and Teller on their show “Fool Us”. The daughter of Dominique Duvivier, a living legend in magic, she faced a double challenge; to make a name for herself under the shadow of her illustrious father and to become a highly respected artist in a field dominated by men.
JUAN TAMARIZ
After briefly pursuing a career in filmmaking in the 1960s, Juan Tamariz turned his talents to magic, and the world is a better place for it. Now widely regarded as one of our finest living magicians, the 78 year old Spaniard continues to perform, innovate and inspire yet another generation of performers. The author of five highly influential books and the recipient of innumerable awards and a full-fledged celebrity in Spain and South America.
RICHARD TURNER
If you ever find yourself at a poker table with American Richard Turner, you’d better just pack up your chips and leave. Referring to himself as a “card mechanic” rather than a magician, he has nonetheless won several Close-Up magician of the year awards thanks to his unparalleled ability to manipulate, shuffle and deal out a deck. But what makes all of Richard’s accomplishments truly incredible is that he is blind – and has been since contracting a degenerative retinal disease when he was nine. Sought out by mobsters and Hollywood film directors alike, he has a card closet at home which is regularly filled with about 6,000 decks, a number which sounds crazy until you consider that he wears through several decks a day.
MICHAEL VINCENT
Michael Vincent is a British magician who has won The Magic Circle’s Close-up Magician of the Year award three times and earned a lifetime membership in the club’s elite Inner Magic Circle. Picking up the magic bug at age 6, he gave his first performance at 14. He gained world wide attention after two successful performances on Penn & Teller’s “Fool Us” TV series. Then in 2011, Michael suffered sudden, mysterious hearing loss overnight and was faced with the prospect of his career ending if he could no longer banter with his audience. But he persevered, taught himself to lip read, and continues to amaze and astound audiences around the world with his card magic.
