Latest Edinburgh Fringe Interviews

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.

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.