Maybe it’s not so hard to know what people are thinking right now. If you approached random adults in my corner of Brooklyn and hazarded “vaccine” or “the election” or “school reopening,” you might startle them. But you probably wouldn’t be wrong.

Scott Silven has more refined methods. A debonair Scottish mentalist, he has entertained New York audiences with jaw-droppers like “Wonders at Dusk” and “At the Illusionist’s Table.” That one had a trick that delivered its climax on a slice of chocolate cake.

It is difficult to serve dessert from rural Scotland, where Silven ostensibly retreated once the pandemic struck. (He has handsome video to back this up, where he strides across various hilltops looking vaguely Byronic. But trust a magician at your own risk.) So he has partnered with the Momentary, a Bentonville, Ark., performance space nestled in a former cheese factory, to bring his telepathy online. In “The Journey,” an hourlong show directed by Allie Winton Butler, he remotely reads the minds of 30 delighted audience members.

Source: New York Times

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