While the stories are deeply personal to DelGaudio, reviewers from Variety note that the performance's true feat is how it shifts the focus back onto the audience, creating a collective feeling of being truly seen. 'In & Of Itself' Is A Study Of Identity And Magic - NPR
The stage featured six recessed windows, representing the chambers of a gun in a game of Russian roulette, each containing a symbolic object linked to a personal story from DelGaudio's life. Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself (2020)
The production is built around a deceptively simple question: . DelGaudio uses his mastery of sleight of hand not for mere spectacle, but as a tool to dismantle the labels—both self-imposed and assigned by society—that define us. While the stories are deeply personal to DelGaudio,