Review Rundown Special: Toronto Fringe Festival 2023
<p>Taking over 16 stages throughout its 12-day run, the 2023 edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival brought 101 unique shows to the city. This non-juried festival held a wide variety of productions, including a number of immersive, and immersive-adjacent performances.</p>
<p>Though only four productions fit the “immersive” bill, a number of shows drew from immersive-type engagement. Whether it be the audience throwing balls at a juggler (<em>Are You Catching What I’m Throwing?</em>), seeing a show about a band within an actual concert venue (<em>Retrograde</em>), utilization of non-critical yet amusing audience interaction (<em>The Family Crow</em>, <em>Insert Clown Here</em>, <em>Amor de Cosmos</em>), or potent breaking of the fourth wall (<em>James & Jamesy: Easy As Pie</em> — and I mean potent… they literally crawled onto the seats in the theater) — immersive practices helped keep many of this year’s productions fresh.</p>
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