It is a narrative-driven performance which incorporates both pantomime with traditional circus skills and tells the story of a 1920s circus "on the brink of bankruptcy that is saved by an inventor who builds the world's first human cannon".

At the age of 15, he began performing a comedy magic street show in Covent Garden, London.

[citation needed] A Member of The Magic Circle, Stocker also performs in the show as "The Great Hermann", the circus magician who is fired from The Human Cannon.

He worked as a street performer in Covent Garden, London, which is where he first met Stocker.

At the age of 22, Foot set up events company Hocus Pocus, "providing seasonal entertainment in approximately 75% of the shopping centres across the UK.