Close-Up Magic & Mentalism
Thirty years of close-up magic and mentalism, performed for private rooms and for people who were certain they were paying attention.
Galas · Corporate Receptions · Supper Clubs · One Parlor Show
The Evening
Nothing is loud. Nothing is explained. The cards do not lie, except when he asks them to.
Most evenings are filled. A good one is remembered. For three decades Matthew Dwinells has made rooms go quiet, then made them gasp, then sent them home to argue in the car about what they think they saw.
He does not work from a stage you have to watch. He works at the table, at the edge of a conversation, in the half-second before a guest understands that the card they signed is now somewhere it could not possibly be. The work is close, unhurried, and absolutely clean.
You will not be told how. That part is the point.
Two Rooms
Among Your Guests
He comes to the room.
Between the courses, around the tables, inside a conversation already underway. A borrowed ring, a chosen card, a thought a guest never said out loud. Close-up magic needs no stage and leaves no seam.
A Ticketed Evening
Forty-five seats. One light.
A single seated room and ninety minutes arranged with the shape of a story. The parlor show is intimate by design, performed only a few nights a season, and close enough that checking is encouraged.
The Craft
Sleight of Hand · Card Work · Mentalism · Cold Reading, Done Warmly
I spent the whole evening certain I would catch him. I am still certain. I still did not. Event Director, Private Members’ Club
The method stays where it belongs.
In the hands. Out of the brochure.
The Booking
Private Engagements
Tell him about the room. He will reply with availability and the shape of an evening that fits it.
The Parlor Show
Next dates released this season
Forty-five seats, a single light, and ninety minutes you will describe badly to everyone who was not there. Dates go to the list first, then to anyone still standing.
No flood of mail. A few nights a season, that is all there is.