Ripley’s Believe It Or Not featured performer and Guinness World Record holding sword swallower Roderick Russell is coming to Maine to perform two unique, two entirely different shows in February, and you have two chances to catch him!

On Friday, February 6th, the Winthrop Performing Arts Center plays host to the show that National Public Radio calls “not only the oddest event of the month, but probably the weirdest of the rest of the year.” Experience the sword swallowing, bizarre mind reading, fire eating and escape that has launched this show into the national spotlight. Not circus, not sideshow, but definitely strange, sophisticated and powerful!

Then, on Saturday the 7th, Roderick will be performing his laugh-out-loud stage hypnosis show at the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield, ME. Utilizing his training in clinical hypnotherapy, Roderick induces a group of willing volunteers from the audience into a surreal hypnotic state, then takes them on a comedic journey into their psyches that will have you laughing so hard your face will hurt. Watch as the participants believe they’ve lost certain body parts, think that they are world champion dancers and can’t remember their own first name!