Following the success of our short film The Good Book Slung Low and Leeds People’s Theatre have joined forces with the brilliant team at Leeds 2023 to make a new film – The Magician.

A cast of over 200 people from across Leeds were involved in filming at some of the region’s most impressive locations, including the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District. Shooting took place in the evenings and at weekends over two weeks in February and March 2022.

Set in a near-future Britain, where violence and civil war threaten to overturn a revolutionary government, The Magician follows a young man on a quest to find the only person who might have the knowledge to stop the burning and the hate.

Written and directed by James Phillips, The Magician stands alone as an original film and also takes place in the world created by the sell-out show “Camelot: The Shining City”, which premiered at the Crucible, Sheffield in 2015. In 2020 we transferred the saga from stage to screen with a new story, The Good Book.