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Scott Silven At The Illusionist’s Table Alpha60 Chapter House M T OCT 7 8 14 15 W 2 9 16 T 3 10 17 F 4 11 18 S 5 12 19 S 6 13 20 8pm 2 hrs 10 mins no interval  Tickets $399 Includes three course dinner and drinks Transaction fees may apply festival.melbourne Presenting Partners The lights are dim and the evening is alight with expectation. The table is set for 24. You and your fellow diners have accepted an invitation to feast on the impossible. Your host is Scott Silven: mentalist and raconteur of impeccable taste. As a meticulous and mouthwatering array of extravagances from the award winning culinary team at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins arrive at your table, Silven concocts a banquet of more otherworldly wonders that will delight and astound in equal measure. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Wow. Wow. Wow. — THE NEW YORK TIMES Silven is awe inspiring. — FORBES This is the event that has floored jaws around the world, turning even the most iron-clad sceptics into ardent admirers in the course of one decadent evening. As with previous Festival works The Echo of the Shadow (2016) and A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017) this is once-in-a-lifetime stuff, and we can’t help but smile knowing what’s in store for Melbourne. 25