Stygian Soap A reimagined classic by Tom Stone

"Stygian Soap" by Tom Stone 2022.
Here, performed by Tom and Gaston, at the Magic Castle in March 2024.
See the whole show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks7PQPtmk8
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In 1939, Howard B. Kayton fled Germany and became an American citizen. Two years later, he got immortalized when he created the work “Soft Soap” (1941), an iconic work that is as silly as it is baffling. The work spread like wildfire among magicians, in many cases via theft and plagiarism, and between 1950-1980 the work was in the repertoire of almost every magician in the world.
Then the trick suddenly disappeared completely.
While the work was popular, dozens of versions were published in the trade magazines and books, but all were minute variations of the script, while the actual magic design barely evolved or changed at all since its creation in 1941.
Within conjuring aesthetics, sneakiness is valued higher than gadgetry. The less "cheating" needed in a work, the more elegant it is considered to be. And based on those parameters, “Soft Soap”, despite its popularity, is not an elegant piece of work. A dichotomy that Tom Stone has pondered since 1997, when he asked the question – Is it possible to recreate the work from scratch, make it more elegant, so that the trick can be completed without the presence of any cheating at all?
Twenty-two years later, Tom found that the answer to that question is “Yes”, as is evident here, in the piece titled "Stygian Soap".
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Photo: Sohum Modha
Music: "Utopia Overture" by Cristobal Tapia de Veer

Booking & info: https://www.tomstone.se/en/

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