Written and performed by Daniel LLewelyn-Williams
Directed by Joshua Richards
An extraordinary coming of age story about hope, determination and magic!
Newport, South Wales: A tenacious young dockworker’s son, enthralled with Harry Houdini’s amazements, dreams of a life of magic to escape the harsh reality of working class Edwardian Britain. As he trains to emulate his hero’s escapology, his personal journey intersects with the great showman himself.

Inspired by the author’s own family stories and the real-life visits of Houdini to Wales, it’s a modern fairytale full of the triumph of the human spirit.

There’s a bewitching sense of history in the magical inner workings of A Regular Little Houdini, playing now at 59E59 Theaters. Daniel Llewelyn-Williams has created an entrancing tale out of a historically dark time in the history of South Wales, with his charismatic one-man show. The story revolves around three central figures, a boy, Alan, his father and his Grandfather, Gami, who is also the Chief Constable in the small coastal town of Newport. The delightful and sometimes harrowing stories of Alan’s life revolve around Alan’s identification with the famous magician Harry Houdini. Alan’s fascination with Houdini begins when the “Houdini Book of Magic” is given to Alan by his father, a dockworker who insists that Alan stay in school. Alan reads the book from cover to cover every day and displays a marvelous dexterity with sleight of hand tricks. Sorry, I meant to use the word “amazements,” not tricks: You see, Alan falls asleep every night working out how to do sleight of hand work and lock picking and other marvelous feats, and he feels the word “trick” denigrates the enormous amount of time and energy it takes to create these wonders, these “amazements” of Houdini’s and his. Al …Read more