Rare Birds Entertainment - Edinburgh, Shows 2006

"I'm Annette Cadabra - Magic Steve's lovely assistant! He let me write this coz I'm like the new Debbie McGee only better cos I�m allowed to talk." A warped magic circle surrounds this blissfully unaware comic character.

Annette Cadabra is the perfect magician�s assistant � young, glamorous, na�ve and bendy. After a sheltered upbringing in sleepy old Wiltshire, the show with Magic Steve is her big show biz break.

Annette is extremely excited about the glitz and glamour of the Edinburgh Fringe - she�s got a new spangly costume and everything. As soon as Magic Steve turns up they can get on with the show. He�d better turn up soon, mind, or the lovely Annette is going to be left not only with the body, but the knives too�

Still, Annette would be thrilled to be centre stage at last. Hyperpathetically, if she did have to cover for Magic Steve it would launch her into the big time, wouldn�t it? Yes it probably would. But that pesky Frank, Magic Steve�s arch nemesis, is using his hypnotic powers of persuasion over the hapless Annette. So she�s going to find out that not everyone can be sawn in half and survive.

Magic has found a new way into the popular mainstream with David Blaine holding his breath and what not. And Magician�s assistants don�t begin and end with the lovely Debbie McGee � Page 3 stunner Linda Lusardi and Faye Tozer from Steps have both been assistants. Scarlet Johansson is
playing a Magician�s Assistant in forthcoming film The Prestige. And the odd Supermodel has fallen under the spell of a Magician�s charms. It�s not all getting into tiny boxes and being Miss Lovely Legs, though that�s a big part of the job�

Magic Steve�s Disappearing Act is the gloriously funny creation of Isabel Fay. Isabel is a Fringe Stalwart; her prior appearances include Arthur Smith�s Swan Lake (2005) Shakespeare for Breakfast, and sell out kiddie shows Bagpuss, The Little Mermaid, and of course Dude! Where�s My Teddy Bear? 2006 sees Isabel�s debut as a solo writer performer in her sharply observed character piece, for which she�s been learning a few tricks of her own.

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More info at www.isabelfay.com or www.disappearingact.co.uk