I Hate Magic

The fun magic show about how sometimes you just hate the thing you love--is coming to Victoria on Vancouver Island!

Can you be a magician if you feel weird about lying? Or seeming superior? Find out why award-winning magician Rob Teszka might hate the thing he loves in this backstage peek at the trouble with tricks! I Hate Magic: the joyously irreverent magic show about trusting your own taste.

Oct 16, in Victoria. Get tickets here!

The press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23 2024

Irreverent Magic Show About Hating Magic Makes Victoria Debut

Rob Teszka is a magician who might hate the thing he loves. Who is he fooling?

Victoria, Sept 23 — Rob Teszka's magic comedy “I Hate Magic” comes to Victoria for one night only on October 16th at Berwick Royal Oak.

After a sold-out run in Vancouver of his 2023 show “Magic Dropout”, Teszka’s new show examines why some people hate magic, and he realizes he might actually agree. The result? A curated demonstration of tricks that Rob loathes, presented with humour and heart as he stares down some of the most ludicrous tropes of his trade. The new show premiered at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2024, received a standing ovation, and even won a Frankie Award (ironically, for poster design).

“I Hate Magic” lovingly skewers the inauthenticity surrounding an artform all about deception, in a gleeful discovery of how to trust your own taste.

“Magicians are liars. You can’t trust the title any more than you can trust me. Also, no matter what anyone says, it’s not a musical.” — Rob Teszka

"rather audacious (or maybe sacrilegious) ... plenty of fun audience participation, and it’s all delivered with Teszka’s infectious, self-deprecating manner ... you are going to love his show." - Stuart Nulman's Grapevine

“Teszka is an engaging presence and his tricks are well paced and have enough “How’d he do that?” awe to keep an audience engaged to the very end.” - Winnipeg Free Press (about previous show Magic Dropout)

Rob Teszka has been performing magic for over two decades, and is president of the Fraser Valley Magic Company. He produces and hosts The Parlour Magic Show: Vancouver’s only monthly magic variety show. Rob developed “I Hate Magic” with dramaturgical support from magician and multiple Pick of the Fringe winner Travis Bernhardt.

“I Hate Magic” begins at 7pm on October 16th at the theatre in the Berwick Royal Oak Retirement Community (4680 Elk Lake Dr, Victoria, BC V8Z 0B4). Guests are asked to please park at Our Lady of Fatima church nearby. Parental guidance is suggested for children under 14. Tickets $20 on Eventbrite at https://bit.ly/IHM_VIC

Contact: Rob Teszka | rob.teszka@gmail.com | 604 309-6993 | https://robteszkamagic.com/

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Archived Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1 2024

Irreverent Magic Show About Hating Magic Debuts at Montreal Fringe
Rob Teszka is a magician who might hate the thing he loves. Who is he fooling?

Montreal, April 1 — “I Hate Magic” is a new magic comedy by Rob Teszka, premiering June 7th at Studio Multimédia for the Montreal Fringe Festival.

After completely selling out the 2023 Vancouver Fringe run of his show “Magic Dropout,” Teszka re-examines his relationship with magic. The result is an hour of tricks that Rob loathes, presented with humour and heart as he stares down some of the most ludicrous tropes of his trade.

“I Hate Magic” lovingly skewers the inauthenticity surrounding an artform all about deception, in a gleeful discovery of how to trust your own taste.

“Magicians are liars. You can’t trust the title any more than you can trust me. Also, no matter what anyone says, it’s not a musical.” — Rob Teszka

Rob Teszka has been performing magic for over two decades, and is president of the Fraser Valley Magic Company. He produces and hosts The Parlour Magic Show: Vancouver’s only monthly magic show.

“I Hate Magic” runs June 7–16 at Montreal Fringe Festival, in Venue 9: Studio Multimédia at Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, 4750 Av Henri-Julien, Montréal QC H2T 3E4.
Tickets $15 at https://montrealfringe.ca/

Showtimes
June 7: 21:30
June 8: 14:15
June 10: 18:15
June 12: 19:15
June 15: 20:00
June 16: 16:15

Contact: Rob Teszka | rob.teszka@gmail.com | 604 309-6993 | https://robteszkamagic.com/

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