Caught the latest shows by Peter Powers in Glasgow.  He generally does the Pavilion Theatre for a few weekends every six months and as with any long-running hypnotist the shows (and volunteers) can be variable.  Thankfully this was one of the better shows.

I attended the event with another member from the site and one of his friends who ended up volunteering for the 7.30 pm slot and of course became the star of the show.  We'd done some private hypno before the show so I don't know whether that led to him ending up on stage because beforehand he wasn't sure if he wanted to take part.

Peter tends to mix up his routines and introduce the occasional new sketch as well.  The show had had a major revamp last summer and the so the format was fairly similar to his July shows.  It was interesting to hear what happens during the interval as I always wondered what happened behind the curtain - he focuses on deepeners with the volunteers so that they can maintain the trance in the second half.  I think this is a new element to his shows because in the past he would have lost a lot of volunteers during the interval but on both occasions all volunteers from the first half remained on stage for the second.  The midnight show hadn't been as wild as I expected but two of the (male) volunteers did end up doing the complete full monty.  Interesting to see that some of the volunteers were rejecting suggestions even though there were quite deeply hypnotised - something I've encountered myself.