Gili - 'Powerful'

“Lend me your imagination tonight and you will see that you are capable of things you didn't know you could do. That you too can penetrate the brain of another and go in search of his or her secret thoughts.” … That is what comedian-mentalist Gili asks you at the start of his 10th performance ‘Machtig!’ (Powerful!). That he himself is capable of crawling into the head of his audience, we have known for a long time. More than ever, he now wants to let the spectators shine as the stars of the show. To their own amazement, they will experience what it is like to have power over another. Add a lot of humor to that, and you get another authentic Gilial show. With his talent as a mentalist combined with witty humor, Gili (aka Lieven Gheysen) created a genre of his own. The road to that started with a magic set when he was 12 years old. Once an adult, he made a name for himself by becoming a finalist of Humo’s Comedy Cup three times. His status as the only magician-comedian in Flanders was a fact. After a series of theater shows, Gili delved into mentalism from 2009. That is: using his five senses so well that it seems as if he has a sixth sense, and with which he lovingly ridicules alleged psychics and clairvoyants. His show ‘Iedereen Paranormaal’ from 2009 was a bomb, and subsequently, he got his own television program on vrt, één: ‘ONmogelijk’ (IMpossible). Suddenly, all of Flanders knew him. Later followed the shows ‘CTRL’, ‘Charlatan’, and ‘Raar hè?!’ (Strange, huh?!), and he toured in France, with series in Paris and Avignon.