Assistant's Revenge

The Assistant's Revenge is a transposition or teleportation illusion in which two performers change places. It was created by magician and inventor Robert Harbin. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-03-07]

Description

One of the two performers, the "restrainee", is placed in a standing position in a large frame and restrained there with various straps, manacles, chains and locks. The second performer, the "restrainer", circles the frame, drawing a curtain first across the front, and then around one side and the back. Almost as soon as the restrainer disappears behind the frame, the restrainee appears from the other side of the apparatus, drawing back the curtain as he or she comes. This reveals the restrainer now restrained in the frame; the two seem to have changed places by magic.

In practice, the roles of restrainer and restrainee have been interchangeable between magician and assistant. Sometimes it begins with the assistant restraining the magician, with the implication that in this way the assistant is gaining "revenge" for all the other tricks they do where the assistant is put in a box. However it is also performed with the assistant being restrained at the beginning and emerging at the end to with the magician restrained as "revenge" for the opening part.

References

External links

* [http://gerryfrenette.tripod.com/revenge.htm Magic Makers version]
* [http://hamiltonholtinc.stores.yahoo.net/asrev1.html Osbourne Illusions]