Tonight, the magician known as Dynamo will bury himself alive. No coffin or casket. Just five tonnes of soil heaped on top of his body submerged six feet underground. From there, it’s up to him to claw himself out from beneath the suffocating mound of earth before he runs out of air. Tick tock.
Certainly, it’s a terrifying stunt. Picture it: the claustrophobia; the dirt in your lungs and in your eyes; the silence – but this is Dynamo we’re talking about. The Bradford-born illusionist, real name Steven Frayne, has made his name pulling off stunts like this. At 40 years old, he has walked across the Thames, dove headfirst from a Los Angeles skyscraper, passed through a glass window, and levitated 1,016ft in the air, his body hovering preternaturally between the glass prongs of the Shard. A bit of soil is no big whoop, you might think. But you’d be mistaken.
