Great Question - Tristan McLindon
After 15 years in marketing, I quit to do magic for a living. Kids in tow, stakes are high. Is this a bold pivot, mild-breakdown or both?
This show is the story of how I got here and what’s next, who knows.
It starts the way most magicians do, a kid obsessed with knowing how it’s done and trying to figure it out. The cheap trick sets, the faded books. The first time you make someone gasp and realise you’ve discovered something more powerful than attention - you’ve discovered you can control it.
From there, every magician follows a kind of lifecycle before you grow up and get a real job. Or… you chase bigger reactions.
And somewhere along the way, if you stick with it long enough, something shifts.
You realise the real magic isn’t in the tricks. It’s the people.
Enter mentalism. Suggestion. Psychology. Influence. The subtle art of making someone believe you know something you couldn’t possibly know. No trapdoors. No rabbits. Just understanding human behaviour.
For me, mind reading became the pinnacle. Not because it’s bigger. But because it’s quieter. Riskier. More exposed. When you claim to read minds, there’s nowhere to hide. Either it works… or it really doesn’t and I’m sh***ing myself as much as you.
And so at 35, instead of buying a motorbike or starting a podcast, I did what any stable adult would do, I walked away from a safe, respectable career and decided to chase that full time.
This show is a real time autopsy of that decision.
It’s about the strange psychology of magicians. Why we’re drawn to deception in the first place. And the difference between fooling someone and connecting with them.
There’s also a burning question beneath it all:
What if this doesn’t work?
What would you do if you could be anything?
Great Question is part comedy, part confession, part live psychological experiment. You’ll see the phases of magic unfold from the early obsession with tricks to impossible mind reading - and you’ll help decide whether this mid-life reinvention is visionary… or delusional.
Because this isn’t just a show about magic.
It’s a show about risk and what happens when you realise the safe path might be the most dangerous one of all.
And yes, I will attempt to read your mind. No pressure.
But let’s see if it works!
After 15 years in marketing, I quit to do magic for a living. Kids in tow, stakes are high. Is this a bold pivot, mild-breakdown or both?
This show is the story of how I got here and what’s next, who knows.
It starts the way most magicians do, a kid obsessed with knowing how it’s done and trying to figure it out. The cheap trick sets, the faded books. The first time you make someone gasp and realise you’ve discovered something more powerful than attention - you’ve discovered you can control it.
From there, every magician follows a kind of lifecycle before you grow up and get a real job. Or… you chase bigger reactions.
And somewhere along the way, if you stick with it long enough, something shifts.
You realise the real magic isn’t in the tricks. It’s the people.
Enter mentalism. Suggestion. Psychology. Influence. The subtle art of making someone believe you know something you couldn’t possibly know. No trapdoors. No rabbits. Just understanding human behaviour.
For me, mind reading became the pinnacle. Not because it’s bigger. But because it’s quieter. Riskier. More exposed. When you claim to read minds, there’s nowhere to hide. Either it works… or it really doesn’t and I’m sh***ing myself as much as you.
And so at 35, instead of buying a motorbike or starting a podcast, I did what any stable adult would do, I walked away from a safe, respectable career and decided to chase that full time.
This show is a real time autopsy of that decision.
It’s about the strange psychology of magicians. Why we’re drawn to deception in the first place. And the difference between fooling someone and connecting with them.
There’s also a burning question beneath it all:
What if this doesn’t work?
What would you do if you could be anything?
Great Question is part comedy, part confession, part live psychological experiment. You’ll see the phases of magic unfold from the early obsession with tricks to impossible mind reading - and you’ll help decide whether this mid-life reinvention is visionary… or delusional.
Because this isn’t just a show about magic.
It’s a show about risk and what happens when you realise the safe path might be the most dangerous one of all.
And yes, I will attempt to read your mind. No pressure.
But let’s see if it works!
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Highlights
- ages 16+
- In person
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Location
Limerick Arms Hotel
364 Clarendon Street
South Melbourne, VIC 3205
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