Party Ideas
If
you want to throw a party that’s a bit different from
everyone else’s, the first thing to do, of course, is
to book your party magician. Once
you’ve booked Iain, you can relax in the knowledge that
the entertainment is sorted.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the
tried-and-tested formula of standing or sitting around, eating
canapés, drinking and chatting. Particularly with a
magician there to bring variety and to ensure everybody mixes
in, this type of party is very enjoyable. It wouldn’t
be so popular otherwise.
However, if you feel inclined to take your
party to the next level, you could consider giving it a theme
or at least decorating your house (or the venue) with banners,
accessories and favours.
Party Themes
Magic
If you and your friends enjoy
doing magic yourselves, you could host a magic party. You
could each learn one or two tricks and show them to one another.
You could take this quite seriously and construct a little
performance area, with curtains around it and seats for the
audience, or you could pitch it more as just a bit of fun,
allowing practical jokes and bar bets to pass as magic.
You can decorate your house
with optical illusions, signs of the zodiac, gambling casino
confetti, giant playing cards, glow-in-the-dark stars…
If you invite Iain to entertain
you as well, he will be happy to teach you a few simple tricks
to expand your repertoire.
Hallowe’en / Witches
and Wizards
At Hallowe’en, or at any time you feel
inspired to, you could have a spooky party. You can really
go to town with the decoration: spiders’ webs; bats;
ghosts; pumpkins; broomsticks; eyeballs, fangs and skeletons
that glow in the dark. There are great costumes to wear: old-fashioned
witch, glamorous witch, traditional wizard, vampire, ghost,
devil… Think horror, think Harry Potter, think Addams
Family.
You can make evil-looking, evil-feeling food
and disguise the drink as blood. The scope is practically
endless; you can really ham it up.
In these circumstances,
magic blends in perfectly. You might even wish to ask Iain
to do a short spot of cabaret magic, which you all sit and
watch, as well as close-up magic. Mentalism (magic mindreading)
is also well suited to spooky occasions.
James Bond
If you want something sophisticated that
will give your guests the opportunity to dress up glamorously,
a James Bond theme could be the answer. As well as drinking
martini (shaken, not stirred), you could:
•
do target-practice with rubber band guns or peashooters
• have a James Bond quiz to test your knowledge of the
books and films
• sing along to the theme songs, karaoke-style
• spend part of the evening solving a murder mystery
(from a box)
• have a ‘fun’ casino.
Casino / Gambling
With or without the James Bond aspect, gambling
with fake money is a great way to enjoy the thrill of a flutter
without any risk whatsoever. You can hire a ‘fun’
casino or you can arrange your own games. There is roulette,
pontoon/blackjack, poker, craps, wheel of fortune… loads
of different challenges for the punters…
… and an ideal setting
for magic.
Card tricks are a well known staple of magic – and many
have a gambling theme. Iain also does tricks with coins, banknotes,
poker chips, lottery tickets and dice.
Let Iain know in advance if your party is
to have a theme, so he can be sure to do magic that’s
in keeping with it.
