DIRK ARTHUR :: WILD MAGIC

In his most recent column for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Mike Weathford takes a look at Dirk Arthur's scaled down show at O'Shea's Casino, Wild Magic.

It didn't seem possible that he could fit his sword-skewered cubes or giant death drill onto a stage more suitable to a stand-up comedian.

And yet he does, giving a new point of view to an act that had become all too familiar. Everyone has basically a front-row seat, and the illusions hold up to scrutiny. Think it's done with mirrors? Go ahead and try to spot them.

More impressive than the box tricks is seeing Arthur fold a plastic sheet into a cone, then produce six real birds and a wing-flapping duck, all close enough for stray feathers to drift into the audience.