Peter Powers was back in Glasgow for his summer season at the Pavilion Theatre.  He normally does a three week run (fridays and twice on saturdays) but this year they invited him for a four week run which is a testament to how popular stage hypnotism is north of the border for those of us in London who can never see a stage hypnotist show in a theatre.

I was at a show along with a few guys from the site, one of whom volunteered for the 7.30 pm show, and by all accounts had a good time.  As usual, Peter had mixed the routines up, introducing a number of new skits which helps to keep his shows fresh (unlike certain other tists where you know exactly what's going to happen each time).  The highlight for me was the subjects being very nervous as a plane was trying to fly over a mountain and a crying baby was driving them nuts.  Yes, I suppose you could say my sense of humour is a little infantile.

Of course, in keeping with Peter's claim to be "the world's most evil hypnotist" he had a routine where one of the guys had their legs waxed by a sadistic beautician.  There was unusually some partial nudity in the 7.30 pm show (normally reserved for the midnight show) where he got the guys to believe they were at a party and would periodically moon the audience.  Who would have thought a diet of deep-fried mars bars could produce such pert bubble butts.  There were some other new skits including a lifeguard saving a blow-up doll from drowning and guys removing items of clothing each time they heard the sound of a bell.  I enjoyed the 7.30 pm show better purely because the subjects were much better controlled and genuinely hypnotised.  There were some drunks amongst the midnight show volunteers and a few of the tists and I were discussing why Peter sent perfectly good subjects back into the audience (who were in trance) but kept a couple of annoying drunks who did nothing but stagger around the stage.  It appears Peter is returning to tradition and the full monty ending at the midnight show did live up to its name.