DERREN Brown, the multi-award winning master of psychological illusion is back where he loves to be - on the road performing live across the country and will play two nights in Southampton next week.

The nation’s favourite dark manipulator of magic and mind control will bring his latest stage presentation, Derren Brown: Underground to Mayflower Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.

Direct from its recent sold-out London run, it features a collection of some of the very best of his previous stage work brought together into a spell-binding experience of showmanship and magical genius.

Derren said: “It’s not a brand new show, rather an opportunity to see me perform some of my own choice of favourite bits from the past 14 years of touring. Hopefully, it will be just as rewarding an experience for those who have seen me before as it will be for first-timers."

Derren has toured every year since 2003 and been watched by an estimated audience of nearly two million people. He has won two prestigious Olivier Awards, for Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006) and Svengali (2012). His last show, Miracle, his most daring to date, was universally acclaimed by critics and the world-wide audience alike

Tickets: 023 8071 1811 or online at mayflower.org.uk.