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This article by Ian Johns about Paul Kieve appeared in The Times, August 10, 2004. Illusionist Paul Kieve’s latest show adopts Victorian values. Our critic stares back in wonder “THEY DO IT [...]

This article was published in The Stage, 22 July 2004. Full version here. From the West End to TV, from ballet to Holly wood, magician and consultant Paul Kieve has established himself as a [...]

Extract from Smoke & Mirrors by Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, May 2004, an article about the Ghost Train immersive theatrical experience. Getting Ghost Train on track has been quite an [...]

Paul Kieve’s services are regularly called upon by the UK’s leading theatre companies – the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Work includes: Theatre of Blood, [...]

Paul has been closely associated with many well know children’s television programmes, including the BBC programme Blue Peter, on which he first appeared in 1984. He has supervised several [...]

OUR HOUSE by Tim Firth. Directed by Matthew Warchus. Music by Madness. Cambridge Theatre 2002/3. Winner of Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The “sliding doors” style narrative [...]

The Witches of Eastwick, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 2001. Paul collaborated with illusionist Simon Drake to create the vomiting demise of Felicia Gabriel (played by [...]

Paul’s services as magic consultant are regularly called upon in the worlds of ballet and opera. Aladdin (ballet)                 Aladdin [...]

Peter Pan by George Styles and Anthony Drewe – New Theatre Copenhagen 2000. Paul designed an innovative version of Tinkerbell.

Dick Whittington, directed by Gillian Lynne Sadler’s Wells 1999 Several magic sequences included the strange assembling of Grimaldi from animated dismembered parts, and a spectacular rats [...]