Chris Tennant Lecture
Chris Tennant is an award-winning magician, mindreader and professional event host, as well as a member of The Magic Circle. His professional work has taken him through more than 15 years and over 1,000 events, giving him a sizeable body of real-world experience from which to draw.
His lecture, The Last 10%, is about everything that happens after you’ve learnt the trick: the small decisions and refinements that can make the difference between simply performing an effect and creating a moment somebody remembers.
What to Expect:
Practical mentalism drawn from Chris’s working repertoire.
Work with marked decks and billets.
Coin magic and other practical material.
Audience management developed through repeated real-world performance.
Thinking around structure, scripting and presentation.
Professional tips and refinements that can turn an existing routine into something substantially stronger.
Rather than simply demonstrating effects and explaining their workings, Chris will examine why particular choices matter: why a routine is structured a certain way, why one presentation gets a stronger response than another, and how apparently minor changes can transform the impact of a performance.
His professional work combines magic, mindreading and hosting at weddings, corporate functions and private events, so the lecture comes from the perspective of someone regularly putting these ideas in front of real audiences.
Whether you perform professionally, entertain at club nights or simply enjoy developing your magic, the aim is to leave with ideas you can put into practice immediately — including ways to make material you already perform considerably stronger.
Where and When
Thursday 15th October 2026
Nomad Theatre - KT24 6RT
Doors 7:30pm • Lecture 8:00pm • 15-min interval • Finish ~10:00pm
Hosted by the Surrey Society of Magicians.