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Professor Heard’s Peerless
Magic Lantern Shows
 
Featuring amazing and colourful, hand-painted picture stories, sights, frights, moral warnings, visual curiosities and mechanical moving images from before the age of cinema
 
Full 80 minute evening show
or repeatable 30 min shows, suitable for day-long events, museums and visitor centres
 
Follow link to Performances for further information
 

Some forthcoming performances 2010

...Revelstoke Railway Days, British Columbia...Cardiff Castle...Kingston Museum....Leighton and Linslade Living History Day...The Little Shop of Horrors, Hackney......
And there’s more
 
In addition to staging international performances for audiences of all ages
Mervyn Heard has devised one-off performance-based projects for the stage, television, feature films and international festivals. Past clients include the Tate and Hayward Galleries the British Library, the Royal Opera House, the International Gothic Association, the Perth Festival the Cinemateca Portuguese, Lisbon and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin.
 
During the last two years he has also devised and hosted two series of public lectures on ‘optical magic’ and a symposium Old Media:New Work, at the University of Westminster. He has also worked with theatre companies and artists co-creating projection-performance sequences integrating  dancers, actors and musicians
 
He is the author of Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern
 
 

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