Liam "LJ" Jumpertz returns to Melbourne International Comedy Festival with MagicSafe: Conjuror VS Corporate, a high-chaos, high-laugh magic seminar where workplace safety meets wand safety… and neither survive intact.

Fresh off winning the Magician’s Choice Award two years running (2024 & 2025), LJ steps back into the role of your overworked, under-supported MagicSafe trainer. Tasked with enforcing the government’s brand-new WorkSafe x MagicSafe “Performing: The MagicSafe Way”. Think hi-vis vests for doves, PPE for rabbits, a Safe Work Method Statement for every spell and a daily wand inspection no one asked for.

But LJ’s biggest hazard isn’t pyrotechnics or unstable magical props.

It’s Todd from Corporate.

Todd is your classic clipboard-wielding, credit-stealing workplace villain – he's been sent from head office to “monitor the seminar”, but really he’s just there to make LJ’s life miserable. With constant interruptions, contradictory rules and surprise “policy updates”, Todd is determined to sabotage LJ’s session and prove that magic should be left to “qualified corporate professionals”.

As LJ desperately tries to keep the seminar on track, the magic spirals into chaos:

– New MagicSafe protocols twist LJ’s tricks into absurd new forms

– Audience participation becomes an unpredictable workplace hazard

– Todd’s interference pushes every illusion toward comedic catastrophe

– Safety demonstrations go wildly off-script (and occasionally on fire)

And behind every clipboard lurks a new rule designed to ruin LJ’s day

This show blends sharp corporate satire, award-winning magic, quick-fire improv and workplace-induced trauma into one hilarious hour. Whether you’ve worked in retail, hospitality, an office, or survived a “quick meeting” that lasted two hours, you’ll recognise the bureaucracy, the frustration and the joy of watching someone else deal with it.

MagicSafe: Conjuror VS Corporate is the evolution of LJ’s cult hit MagicSafe seminars, with bigger tricks, bigger laughs and even more ridiculous regulations. It’s The Office meets Utopia meets a magic show!

Perfect for comedy fans, magic lovers, stressed-out employees, HR escapees and anyone who’s ever shouted “this could’ve been an email”.

Praise for LJ:

'Baffling! I loved it.' Teller (Penn & Teller)

'Liam delivers a show that is as clever as it is unhinged.' The Theatre

'Mind-blowing magic and actual stitches from laughter.' ★★★★★

'A brilliant send-up of OH&S with genuinely impressive magic.' ★★★★★

'Todd is the funniest villain since Dwight Schrute.' ★★★★★

'Smart, sharp, chaotic – one of the festival’s hidden gems.' ★★★★

So clock in, buckle up and prepare for a workplace safety seminar that fails every safety standard imaginable. Will LJ outsmart bureaucracy? Will Todd finally get the recognition he thinks he deserves? And will the MagicSafe seminar end in triumph… or paperwork?

There’s only one place to find out.

Book now and join the chaos at The Speakeasy Theatre.