Scripts
Scripts
If you would like to read the beginning of Ian's cabaret act, you can find the words here.
The text of The Vision, a poem from the shows, is here.
From this page you can also download the scripts for some of Ian's full-length shows, in pdf format. Of course, the magic tricks are just described, but the texts give an idea of the theatrical structure:


Ian Saville begins the transformation from bourgeois to socialist conjurer, with the help of 3 Gods from Brecht's play The Good Person of Sichuan and a grumpy ventriloquist's dummy of the playwright himself.
"You have found out how to conjure up a most credible Brecht. Much more successfully than many Brecht experts are able to do. And as a complex demonstration of Verfremdung (or Alienation? Or what? You name it) your dialogues with him could hardly be bettered. This really is magic. You make us laugh and think. What more could BB ask?" John Willett, Brecht scholar and translator.


