CHRIS COX
Control Freak
Chris will be performing again at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival with his all new show, Chris Cox: Control Freak.
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Phil McIntyre Entertainments in arrangement with Karushi Management presents
Chris Cox: Control Freak
Pleasance Courtyard, 6.20pm 30th July to 25th August 2008 (not 11th)
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(please note if the Fringe Box Office is Sold Out, the Pleasance will normally still have tickets available)
You think you have free will, you think you can decide what you choose, you think fate can't be changed, you need to think again! Chris Cox will change the way you think! After selling out at last year’s Edinburgh Festival (his debut) - the mind reader who can't read minds is back reading minds in an all-new show ‘Chris Cox: Control Freak’ which comes to the Pleasance Courtyard.
’Control Freak’ focuses on our ability to control those around us, through a mix of magic, psychology, neuro-linguistics programming, reading body language, subliminal messaging, influencing and lying. It takes the ideas behind the last show, ‘Everything Happens For A Reason’, and explores them in more detail; this funny, entertaining and cutting edge show will leave you laughing, thinking and rubbing your chin in a slightly curious fashion.
Last year Chris looked at how fate and chance are mysteries of the universe, now he’s worked out that there are rules to the universe, and if you learn those rules you can control the universe (as long as the universe is an un-biast selection of people in a room in Edinburgh watching him and thinking he’s great!)
By trying to remove the audience's free will and controlling them without them knowing it, giving them the responses they need he tries to prove that he can make it look like he can read their minds! Chris will be looking at the ‘what if’ moments in life, trying to work out how all those little things about our lives add up to turn us into the person we are. Audience participation crucial!!!
"One of the most exciting entertainers in Britain" The Guardian
"Does tricks that would make Jesus proud. Very Funny" Time Out
"A show that'll change the way you think about your life… a mesmerising performance"
**** Edinburgh Evening News
"Commands his stage like an old hand.. very impressive" Glasgow Herald
"Must See' The Stage
"Get a ticket fast before they're all gone. Pure magic" ***** Broadway Baby
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Chris Cox : Control Freak 2008 Previews
The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delemare Terrace, Little Venice, London, W2 6ND
Booking: 020 7289 6054
Booking: www.canalcafetheatre.com
Cost: £7 / £6 Conc
Running Time: 1 hour
Dates:
26th May 2008 - 9.30pm
31st May 2008 - 7.30pm
23rd June 2008 - 9.30pm
30th June 2008 - 9.30pm
7th July 2008 - 9.30pm
11th July 2008 - 7.30pm
21st July 2008 - 9.30pm
Special preview performance at the 2008 Summer Festival in Oxford
4th July @ 9.30pm
http://www.thenorthwall.com
The North Wall Arts Centre
SOUTH PARADE
OXFORD
OX2 7NN
01865 319 452
Chris Cox : Control Freak 2008 UK Tour
| Date | City | Venue | Box Office | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July - 25 August | Edinburgh | Pleasance | 0131 556 6550 | Book Online with the Pleasance |
| 5 October | Crawley | Hawth | 01293 553 636 | hawth.co.uk |
| 10 October | Reading | South Street | 0118 960 6060 | readingarts.com |
| 11 October | Warwick | Arts Centre | 02476 524 524 | warwickartscentre.co.uk |
| 15 October | Bath | Rondo Theatre | 01225 463 362 | rondontheatre.co.uk |
| 16 October | Tunbridge Wells | Trinity Theatre | 01892 678 678 | trinitytheatre.net |
| 17 October | Brighton | Pavillion | 01273 709 709 | brightondome.org |
| 18 October | Maidstone | Hazlitt Theatre | 01622 758 611 | hazlitttheatre.co.uk |
| 19 October | Leeds | City Varieties | 08456 441 881 | cityvarieties.co.uk |
| 23 October | Swindon | Arts Centre | 01793 614 837 | swindon.gov.uk/artscentre |
| 24 October | Colchester | Arts Centre | 01206 500 900 | colchesterartscentre.com |
| 25 October | Fareham | Ashcroft Arts Centre | 01329 223 100 | ashcroft.org.uk |
| 31 October | Cambridge | The Junction | 01223 511 511 | junction.co.uk |
| 6 November | Norwich | Playhouse | 01603 598 598 | norwhichplayhouse.co.uk |
| 7 November | High Wycombe | Town Hall | 01494 512 000 | wycombeswan.co.uk |
| 8 November | Newbury | New Greenham Arts | 01635 522 733 | cornexchangenew.com |
| 14 November | New Milton | Forest Arts Centre | 01425 612 393 | forest-arts.co.uk |
| 21 November | Aldershot | West End Centre | 01252 330 030 | westendcentre.co.uk |
| 22 November | Maidenhead | Norden Farm | 01628 788 997 | nordenfarm.org |
| 28 November | Cardiff | Wales Millennium Centre | 08700 402 000 | wmg.org.uk |






