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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.

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).

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.

Ahead of the TomYumSim's Trainwreck arriving at Shoreditch Town Hall later this month, we caught up with one half of TomYumSim, Simone French, to talk about how viral failures inspired the show's creation, why audience participation is central to the experience, and why human performers can never be substituted for AI.

Next month, UNCLE BARRY's The Edge of Eden returns for two weekends at Portugal's Bela Colina. Part creative retreat, part immersive experience, the five-day-long gathering, which is open to all, combines workshops, communal meals and interactive performances to help attendees get into a creative headspace and recharge. Ahead of The Edge of Eden's return, we caught up with UNCLE BARRY's Ariana Aragon to discuss what last year's attendees took away with them, how the retreat c

Alibi: Dead Air is an immersive murder-mystery experience inspired by Jubensha, a gaming format originating in China that has rapidly become one of the fastest-growing entertainment categories in the world. Blending social deduction, investigative gameplay and live theatre, Alibi places audiences at the centre of an unfolding investigation where no one can be trusted, as groups investigate the murder of true crime podcaster Gloria Carpenter.

The Key of Dreams is a 24-hour-long immersive experience that takes place at Treowen, a 17th-century manor house in Monmouthshire, Wales. The experience combines fine dining, puzzle and escape room elements, improvised interactive performance and branching narratives to create a one-of-a-kind, occult-infused immersive experience that's driven by the audience and their choices. We sat down with Lemon Difficult's Ivan Carić to discuss the show's design, audience agency and writ

Later this month, Chronic Insanity will take over all five floors of Nottingham's People Hall for Apple of Discord, a multi-hour, free-roaming immersive experience based around the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, which kick-started the Trojan War. Ahead of the show's opening, we caught up with Chronic Insanity's Artistic Director, Joe Strickland.

Studio Zweklos is a London-based performance studio working between immersive theatre, comedy, live art and nightlife culture. The collective was co-founded by performer and producer Theodora van der Beek, whose six solo shows have toured internationally, alongside immersive experience-maker Nathan Ess and producer/curator Morgan Brame.

We sat down with Phantom Peak's Co-Founder and Creative Director, Nick Moran, to discuss the show's new Westfield Stratford City venue, and what's in store for the townsfolk in Phantom Peak's final season at Canada Water.