Fringe 2025 – Kevin Quantum uses 1 million volt shock to read minds
He also aims to make sceptics reconsider whether magic is real.
Unbelievable Magic for Non-Believers will have a high-voltage finale featuring a million-volt Tesla coil – a dramatic tribute to James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish physicist who first described the laws of electromagnetism.
Kevin, however, makes unorthodox use of the machine to slam the massive electrical charge through his own body – unleashing his ability to read the minds of his audience.
Originally from Fife but now based in Edinburgh, he is a firm favourite at the Fringe where his shows combine illusions, magic tricks, danger, sleight of hand, science and maybe even the truly impossible.
He said: 'We will be celebrating science and scientists, like the phenomenal James Clerk Maxwell who was Einstein's inspiration and who revolutionised our thinking about how the cosmos works.
'I will be bringing the immense invisible electromagnetic forces he described to life on stage with a million volts of lightning.
'And I'm challenging non-believers to come along to see if they, like Einstein, will be persuaded that there is more to the universe than they imagine.
'I was once a sceptic myself – but then I discovered the inexplicable. And maybe I have the power to change your mind about magic and read your thoughts.'
Einstein originally believed the universe functioned according to fixed laws like a machine and nothing was a matter of chance, declaring that 'God does not play dice'.
But Kevin will be presenting the trick which made him think again – what the magician describes as 'the most beautiful trick in magic'.
Einstein was a huge admirer of his 19th-century Scottish predecessor, whose theory of electromagnetism forever transformed our understanding of reality.
Indeed, Maxwell is often regarded as the greatest scientist to have lived between Newton and Einstein.
The show will also turn the tables on social media – where magic tricks are often used to create content. In this case Kevin will use audio illusions from TikTok to make magic.
A world-class showman, Kevin is fresh from the Adelaide Fringe where the new show was a five-star hit.
This year he celebrates 20 years in magic. Trained by Penn and Teller and earning celebrity on Britain's Got Talent, he amazes audiences with fun, fresh Fringe shows and also runs the Edinburgh MagicFest each December.
Tickets: assemblyfestival.com or 0131 623 3030
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