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The Magic Circle has readmitted a female magician expelled for tricking her way into the previously all-male institution by disguising herself as a man. “We’re proud to welcome back magician ...
Read here This data is evident at the magic circle– out of the 779 London partners, there are 69 (8.9 per cent) who identify as BAME, compared to 710 (91 per cent) who either stated they are white or ...
But on the outside, there was more than one talented 'witch' who wanted to join the Magic Circle. That fact was evidenced this week by the news that the once all-male society wants to apologise ...
Now, they want her back. Sophie Lloyd, an actress, was persuaded by her friend, a magician called Jenny Winstanley, in the late 1980s to apply to the Magic Circle. Winstanley didn’t think she ...
That performance won Mr. Lloyd acceptance into the society, The Magic Circle, in 1991. But after revealing a few months later that he was in fact a she, the performer was ousted from the club.
Back in 1991, Sophie Lloyd pulled off the ultimate illusion, tricking the Magic Circle into thinking she was a man. But over 30 years after being unceremoniously kicked out, the Circle has tracked ...
Last year, the Magic Circle began searching for Sophie Lloyd, who disguised herself as a man in 1991 to gain membership and was then ousted. On Thursday, she returned. By Amelia Nierenberg ...