Fringe Theatre Reviews: Immersive Shows

Be prepared to be asked some pretty big questions at One Step’s Forever Young [★★★★☆]. A site-specific piece that leads a solo audience member around the city, Forever Young presents you with choices ranging from the small to big moral questions. All of it is turned around, to get you to look at yourself and to answer the most important question of all: 'Would your teenage self like the person you’ve become?'

The production is clever and slick, using text and phone calls to track you as you follow its teenage cast around the city. The cast are funny, invested and good at facilitating the environment the show needs. It doesn’t answer its questions, but expects you to. You’ll still be trying long after the show’s end.

Ontroerend Goed’s A Game of You [★★★★★] is similarly filled with questions and insights you didn’t expect , or perhaps even know about yourself. The audience are taken one at a time into a maze-like space created with black curtain. Moving from room to room, it is a game of extreme people-watching, and of looking at yourself. 

The actors absorb mannerisms and reflect them back impeccably, picking up on what you might think are imperceptible ticks and habits, things only you or those closest to you would recognise about yourself. It is a studied and rehearsed performance, even if it is different each time, based around each audience member. This is a show that you can’t forget, cleverly constructed from a company that we will continue to talk about for a long time.

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A Game of You, Traverse, run ended

Forever Young, Traverse, run ended