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comedy · Sunday 23 August 2026 · 7:00pm 
David Meade: Experi-mental at The Black Box Belfast
At The Black Box · 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim
At The Black Box · 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim
David Meade, the Belfast-based mentalist and mind-reader, brings his live show Experi-mental to The Black Box on Cathedral Quarter’s Hill Street for two consecutive nights, Sunday 23 and Monday 24 August 2026. Meade has built a career out of close-up mentalism and audience-led mind-reading, a strand of comedy magic that leans on quick wit and crowd participation as much as sleight of hand, and this run is billed on the venue’s own listing as a stand-up-adjacent comedy performance rather than a straight magic show.
Experi-mental is built around live experiments with the audience, reading reactions and predicting choices in real time, with the comedy coming from Meade’s patter as much as from the tricks themselves. It is an intimate room, so expect to be pulled into the show rather than watching from a distance. Both nights run at the same 7:00pm time and share the same format, so either date works equally well.
The Black Box itself is a converted whiskey bond in the Cathedral Quarter, an intimate black-box theatre space that suits close-up mentalism far better than a big proscenium stage would, since Meade needs to see and read the room to make the format work. Booking this as a two-night run rather than a single date suggests the venue is treating it as a proper mini-residency rather than a one-off try-out, which tracks with how established Meade’s live show has become on the Belfast circuit.
The Black Box sits in the Cathedral Quarter, a five-minute walk from Belfast city centre and well served by Metro and Glider stops on Royal Avenue and Donegall Street. Great Victoria Street and Lanyon Place train stations are both within a 15-minute walk, and Writers’ Square car park is the closest option for anyone driving.
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