Nothing on Earth (Can Hold Houdini)

Nothing on Earth is written and directed by Randall Sharp, the Artistic Director of Axis Company, who wrote and directed the company’s Drama Desk-nominated production of Last Man Club, and who directed Edgar Oliver’s acclaimed East 10th Street. Her new play examines Houdini’s driven crusade to expose fraudulent mediums and his crossing paths with the avid spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both men are catapulted to the center of The Scientific American Magazine contest to find the first-ever provable clairvoyant, a battle that destroyed their friendship and left Houdini to continue his search for a true psychic to contact his mother. He was not successful.

Axis Company has worked closely with William Kalush, Executive Director of the Conjuring Arts Research Center, Houdini scholar, and author of The Secret Life of Houdini, to re-create some of Houdini’s most famous illusions and bring the audience on a journey to the strangest part of his life story.