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As anyone who's ever experienced the drive back from Glastonbury on a Monday lunchtime can tell you, the worst part of going to a festival is the journey home. For Daisy, the protagonist of Soleil Kohl's interactive choose-your-own-adventure Don't Kill Daisy, this fact is taken to an extreme, as they find themselves in a time loop, doomed to repeat their trek home from Burning Man over and over again while being relentlessly pursued by a fedora-wearing Bad Guy.

In the opening moments of exit strategy's wonderfully stressful How to Win a Gameshow, the full legal name of an audience member is read aloud by the show's host (Marykate Glenn), and they're invited to the stage. How their name was found and why they were chosen is unknown.

Renowned painter Van Gogh stumbles into an immersive experience of his artwork in Donna Oblongata's interactive clown show, The Van Gogh Shogh, which is at Edinburgh Fringe until 30th August 2026.

Interactive comedy-horror Jill's Tupperware Party, which runs at Underbelly Cowgate until 30th August, was one of our most highly anticipated shows heading into Edinburgh Fringe this year, in large part due to the pedigree of the show's creative team. Coral Bevan, Ricky Hunt and David Alwyn - working here as Asparagus Mousse Productions - all have extensive experience in interactive and immersive theatre, and have worked on shows for the likes of Secret Cinema and The Lost Es

404 Theater's DeepFake, which runs at Underbelly Cowgate until 30th August, is an immersive theatre show designed for one audience member at a time. As part of the show, they take on the role of Alex Doe, the Head of Public Relations for MirrorMind - a tech company on the verge of launching a revolutionary new AI product that allows users to create their own deepfake content.

This autumn an AI-driven, immersive, interactive new courtroom drama will see humanity stand trial as Lightroom London presents GAWD v. The People. The show, GAWD, created by nilor, has the audience as witnesses and advocates as the live Judge GAWD, played by an AI agent, investigates whether humans deserve to stay on the planet and get another chance. Each performance is unscripted, with multiple active AI characters, and no two shows are the same.

Interactive Theatre's Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience is an immersive dinner show inspired by the classic BBC sitcom. As part of the experience, guests are treated to a three-course 1970s-inspired meal while Basil, Sybil and Manuel attempt to keep service running smoothly, with predictably disastrous results unfolding around them. We recently sat down with Interactive Theatre's Executive Producer, Jared Harford, to discuss the show.

Phantom Peak, London's leading open-world immersive experience, will open its new flagship venue at Westfield Stratford City on Friday 4th December 2026. The new venue is a multi-level, accessible home for the experience, built by Tandem Set and Scenery and powered by technology from across The League of Adventure Group. It follows the original Canada Water venue, which closed on 28th February 2026 after 625 performances, having welcomed over 160,000 guests since launching

One of Europe's biggest immersive horror attractions, The Nightmare Realm, is making its UK debut this October, bringing 17 years of Irish horror, storytelling and theatrical spectacle to London for the very first time. Running for just 18 nights from 9th October to 1st November 2026, The Nightmare Realm will transform the historic Avery Hill Mansion in Greenwich into an immersive world of fear, launching its new theme, A Nightmare From Overseas.

In Every Single Sound in the World, the debut clown show from Manchester Fringe’s Best Newcomer nominee Natalie Patuzzo, an alien arrives on Earth with a simple task: to collect every single sound on the planet. Using her voice, everyday objects, and audience interaction, Natalie recreates and generates new sounds. The show also serves as a meditation on Natalie’s experience as an autistic person and the alienation children with autism experience. We sat down with Natalie

Groundbreaking immersive theatre company Punchdrunk will reopen the gates to the set of its hit production of The Burnt City at its home base in Woolwich this September. Marking three years since the production’s final performance, Punchdrunk will reawaken the immersive environment of Troy for a special one-weekend-only screening of Persephone, a film of the original production as it was performed.

The multi-award-winning creators of Richard III (a one-person show) and Timonopoly, Brite Theater, return to Edinburgh Fringe this August with their audience favourite, Hamlet (an experience). An interactive and participatory adaptation of Hamlet, the show allows audience members to get up close to the prince himself as he directs them in the story of his life. Ahead of its Edinburgh Fringe run, we caught up with Emily Carding to talk about the show.