Paul Kieve – the performer

Paul Kieve has always performed a highly visual style of magic. This has allowed him to cut across language barriers and to appear before audiences in Japan, Spain and Italy as well as at venues [...]

From the Swiss Children’s magazine HEY following the publication of Hocus Pocus. Do you have any advice on how to become a good magician? Firstly you have to be interested in becoming good [...]

This Q&A was written by Paul Kieve at the request of the Bath Literary Festival where he was presenting Hocus Pocus to an audience of youngsters What was your first pet?  A  Terrapin, but my [...]

This article for the New Vic Theatre at Newcastle-under-Lyme was written as Paul was working on their production of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni (with a new libretto by Chris Monks) in 2008. [...]

Paul Kieve was interviewed by Alec Gamble for children’s book website Write Away on the publication of Paul’s Hocus Pocus.  The wide-ranging discussion covers a great deal of [...]

Interview with Paul Kieve for the children’s magazine Kraze Club. I collect magic books dating back to 1600 – I have literally hundreds of volumes and I love reading about the acts that [...]

The BBC TV programme “I’d Do Anything” in 2008 was a primetime search for a “Nancy” and an “Oliver” to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End [...]

Article written by Paul Kieve for Time Out magazine, October 2007. As a designer of stage magical effects there is something constantly inspiring about the great magicians who appeared during the [...]

Cover Feature for the Magic Circular, the magazine of The Magic Circle by Matthew Field, May 2007. PDF version here. There are but a small handful of magicians who are involved in creating magic [...]

This article on the origins of the “sawing a woman in half” illusion was written by Paul Kieve for Cabinet Arts magazine. Known for his mischievous sense of humor, Francis White was [...]