Kevin Quantum
Quantum’s Magic Seven
Kevin Quantum on how magic and straight theatre are linked
Edinburgh-based magician Kevin Quantum is a dab hand at melding elements of theatre into his act. Check out the presentation of his brilliant Flaming Balls act to Britain’s Got Talent if you don’t believe so.
Magic Fest Listing 2023
There is plenty of magic for all members of the family in this year’s MagicFest, which opens this week with Kevin Quantum’s Edinburgh Magic and continues into next with shows at the Storytelling Centre and Quantum’s big Christmas Special at the Church Hill Theatre.
Kevin Quantum: Momentum
★★★★☆ Magic
Edinburgh’s own scientist-turned-magician has produced another thoroughly entertaining show in Kevin Quantum: Momentum at the Assembly Rooms.
Edinburgh Magic
★★★★☆ Rosy
Close up and intimate, Kevin Quantum’s latest show, Edinburgh Magic, makes best use of the Versailles Suite of the Caledonian Hotel – or Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh as we are now supposed to call it.
MagicFest Listings
Edinburgh International Magic Festival dates
Edinburgh’s MagicFest takes place across the city from 17-31 December, featuring international stars including Edinburgh’s own Kevin Quantum and Spanish winner of the Magic World Championships, Héctor Mancha.
Burn (EIF)
★★★★☆ Fiery
Burn, Alan Cumming’s solo dance-theatre interpretation of Robert Burns in the International Festival at the King’s, has a definite spark of passion.
Kevin Quantum: Dark Matter
★★★★☆ Magical genius
Atmospheric as soon as you enter, the stage in the Teviot Dining Room is starlit in anticipation of the wonders of the magic circle in Kevin Quantum’s latest show, Dark Matter.
Quantum in BGT semi
Kevin Quantum in BGT semi-final this Saturday:
Edinburgh magician Kevin Quantum has made it to the semi-final stage of Britain’s Got Talent and will be appearing on the show airing on Saturday 26 September 2020 from 8pm on STV.
Cultural quickies
Edinburgh’s responses to Covid-19
With everyone having to stay at home, and all the theatres and TV studios dark, it seems that every actor and their cat has started up a daily YouTube or Facebook Live show.
MagicFest 10 Revealed
Tenth MagicFest programme is out:
Details of the tenth Edinburgh MagicFest, taking place from 27 December 2019 to 5 January 2020, have been revealed, with a new Hogmanay event added at Lauriston Castle.
