The maverick magicians return to the Sydney Opera House and beyond with a delightful new tour that emphasises the audience – and the doubters

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The uncomfortable bedfellows of religion and physics feature heavily in the latest show from Penn & Teller, the mavericks of stage magic, now celebrating 50 year of working together.

Penn (hefty, loquacious and now 69) and Teller (gnomic, silent and 76) made their stage debut in 1975 in a Renaissance Fair in Shakopee, Minnesota as the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society. Such were the times.