COMEDY

I was dreading this performance. I’ve never really approved of stage hypnotism, thinking it degrading to its subjects. Nor, if I’m honest, have I ever seriously believed it, thinking that the participants must be stooges. Never the less, I went to the City Edinburgh Nightclub with an open mind. Now it has been opened further.

The show begins with a support act, Mark Sheppard. Cross dressing, genderless, and very cool – a couple of years back he supported Lady Gaga on tour. Think Gaga and you’ll get the idea of where he’s at.

Then came Titan Knight, the main event. The lighting is spectacular, the video screen is enormous and the audience – they go bananas.

I’m not going to say much about the following 90 minutes, the less you know, the more you’ll enjoy it. Needless to say, it didn’t degrade anybody, though the performance was at times very, very funny. I also now know for a fact that stage hypnotism is very real – no stooges were used throughout the evening.

I’m a skeptic, I don’t believe in magic, or God, or Santa Clause. In Titan, I believe.