Presented by Toronto Fringe, the Primetime Festival opened this week. There are five shows in total, scheduled for specific live performances and some on-demand access during the month of November. The defining aspects of the festival are its diversity, accessibility and interactive opportunities. 

You access the festival entries though the gather.town app and are then lead into a performance space on that platform or on Twitch or Zoom. There are festival front-of-house staff available 30 minutes prior to showtime to guide you through any of the technical aspects of the apps. It’s a good idea to set-up a Twitch and/or Zoom account ahead of time, to help make the process as smooth as possible.

The gather.town app has a definite old school video game appeal. Your avatar and the environments appear in 8-bit style graphics. The keyboard controls are very simple and you can enable personal video and audio as required. 

Djinn Joint and Project-A-Sketch are two of the live shows that opened this week. Each runs 60 minutes. Continue Reading