Latest Edinburgh Fringe Coverage

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

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.

For 2026, the creative team behind BATSU! will debut GANBA!!, an energetic interactive ninja training show for families. Through sword training, physical comedy, martial arts, water fights and audience participation, young warriors will test their focus, agility, teamwork and courage through a series of hilarious challenges as they train to defeat the Batsu no Akuma (Spirit of Punishment).

Truthmachine places twelve audience members in an intimate interrogation room. Throughout the 30-minute experience, one volunteer is connected to a custom-built polygraph system and subjected to a live interrogation. As biometric sensors track heart rate, breathing and galvanic skin response, the rest of the audience becomes the jury, tasked with deciding whether the volunteer is telling the truth.

The Van Gogh Shogh - an interactive solo show featuring award-winning Philadelphia-based performer Donna Oblongata and directed by Francesca Montanile Lyons - sees the infamous painter, complete with bandaged ear, fur-lined cap and green overcoat à la Van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear', recast as a gig-economy delivery rider who happens upon a modern-day immersive exhibition dedicated to their own work.

exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is a participatory show that follows Graham, who has spent an indeterminate amount of time trapped as a contestant inside a bizarre game show. The show explores our own capacities for complicity under observation, our impulses as a group and as individuals, and our presumed anonymity in theatrical, social, and technological spaces.

Immersive comedy-horror Jill's Tupperware Party, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is the latest interactive production from Asparagus Mousse Productions - an artist-led theatre company co-founded by performers and makers Coral Bevan, David Alwyn and Ricky Hunt, who have worked extensively with the likes of Secret Cinema and The Lost Estate.

Leo Lion, an NYC game-theatre artist known for interactive/immersive experiences, returns to Edinburgh Fringe with the world premiere of I WAS NEVER HERE (THERE IS NO SPY SHOW). In a fusion of absurd clown and escape room, audiences must race against the clock to help a blundering sleeper agent recover his lost memories and save the world.

Don’t Kill Daisy is an interactive comedy adventure game that the audience co-constructs in real time. Inspired by roguelite video games, glitch aesthetics, nostalgia, and being chronically online, every performance unfolds differently based on how the audience plays. Each audience member chooses an object upon entering the show that helps them guide Daisy through a collapsing world that time loops back on itself.

Face Off Unlimited, the creators of the roaringly successful international comedy game show BATSU! debut GANBA!! - their high-energy interactive ninja training show for families at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe at Underbelly Bristo Square Friesian from 5th to 16th August. The show reimagines BATSU!’s Japanese-inspired comedy experience for a new generation, inviting children and their grown-ups to become the heroes of their own ninja adventure.

Table for Two, which has been created by Magic Circle member Jack Kenyon and his long-time partner, Isabelle Dooley-Carmichael sees Kenyon attempts to right the wrongs of past relationships while trying to impress his latest date, who is chosen at random from the audience and remains on stage for the show's duration, with feats of magic.

Eight-time Fringe First winners Ontroerend Goed return to the Fringe. Only this time, they won’t be present. Handle with Care is a show in a box that is entirely performed by the audience. No actors, no technicians – just a box, and you. The show started from two questions: How do you connect with people you will never meet, and how can we care for those who come after us? Ontroerend Goed guides the audience through the performance with instructions, letters, questions, a

Alistair Aitcheson's My Date with Pierce Brosnan, which comes to the Edinburgh Fringe this August, is an interactive comedy that blends drag, clowning and video game technology. In the show, French maid Mademoiselle Cafetière comes face to face with the man of their dreams: Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan. By scanning a QR code on their phones, audience members help build Cafetière's dating profile, place orders at her café, and give the lifeless dummy of Pierce Brosnan a pers

404 Theater's DeepFake, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is an immersive show designed to be experienced by only one audience member at a time. Ahead of its Edinburgh Fringe run, we caught up with the show's creators, Grace Goheen and Minh-Anh Day, to talk about the rapid rise of deepfake technology, why the show could only ever have been an immersive experience for one audience member at a time, and their highlights from previous years at the festival.

Do you have what it takes to handle the demands of stardom, and walk away with a full refund for your ticket this Fringe? Join For the Fun, in their interactive gameshow-play (No) Refunds, hosted by the dazzling, delightful, and only occasionally maniacal Tiffany Gold, an old-school American gameshow host and model presenter all-in-one -who quite literally depends on your entertainment.

Following international acclaim, Richie Schiraldi’s The Mothman Cometh will return to Edinburgh Fringe for a second year this August. Lit only by Mothman’s glowing red eyes, the show is a dark, immersive, experimental, character-comedy about a strange and cryptic creature that is recruiting Minions of Darkness. Mothman will guide the audience through a variety of games, rituals, and happenings to navigate the void, embrace the unknown, and find power in community.