It all started with a cup of coffee… and a blindfolded clairvoyant.
As he sat beside me in a cafe booth, mentalist Thommy Ten asked me to take out some items from my bag at random.
Rummaging through pens and chargers, I wanted to find something that Amelie van Tass, his stage partner and wife, might struggle to predict as she faced away from us. I handed Ten my passport, my wallet and a bag of almonds.
Talking toward the wall, van Tass said, “It’s an ID… is that a passport?” She was right. “And it expires April 2033?” I did not even know that – I checked and apparently it does.
Van Tass quickly guessed the bag of nuts. It was when she started accurately rattling off my licence and Visa card numbers that the phrase “sixth sense” came to my mind.
The Clairvoyants perform mentalism, a branch of magic that encapsulates all things mind reading, precognition and extrasensory perception. The duo’s performances are theatrical and often break the fourth wall.