The stage featured six recessed windows, representing the chambers of a gun in a game of Russian roulette, each containing a symbolic object linked to a personal story from DelGaudio's life.
The production is built around a deceptively simple question: . DelGaudio uses his mastery of sleight of hand not for mere spectacle, but as a tool to dismantle the labels—both self-imposed and assigned by society—that define us. Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself (2020)
DelGaudio weaves together vulnerable personal anecdotes—including stories of his upbringing and his time as a professional cardshark—with illusions that serve to illustrate the "super-real". A Collective Epiphany The stage featured six recessed windows, representing the
Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself (2020), directed by Frank Oz, is a transformative cinematic record of a singular off-Broadway performance that ran for 552 shows. More than a typical magic special, it functions as a "theatrical existential experience" and a "modern allegory" that explores the profound and often painful nature of identity. directed by Frank Oz
