Pat Greene in Unity at Orlando Fringe Credit: Seth Kubersky

There are two audience-participation site-specific shows worth paying attention to at this year’s Fringe: Unity and Letters in Need.

Unity, the latest entrancing audio experiment from composer Nathan Felix, sees audience members sitting on the sidewalk outside Orlando Shakes and following time-stamped instructions to create a cacophonic symphony using squeak toys, stones and Pop Rocks. A guest artist or two (local legend Pat Greene at my performance) loosely lead the ad hoc ensemble; when Greene stopped to tune his untunable violin after an eternity of tinnitus-inducing screeching, I literally rolled on the grass with laughter. 

Letters in Need at Orlando Fringe Credit: Courtesy Photo

Phoenix Tears is responsible for the ornate old-fashioned post office boxes found in the Silver venue lobby, which serve as the setting for Letters in Need, a charming one-on-one interactive experience where you’ll read and redirect missives from various lonely souls. United Support Processing Service postmaster Olive (creator-designer Mary Hosford) gently helped me restore life to these dead letters, and left me with a lovely handwritten note that I’ll cherish with this memory long after Fringe.

For both Unity and Letters in Need, my only note is “no notes,” mostly because I was too busy participating to take any notes. They may not be “the greatest show I’ve ever seen at the Fringe” (as we fib-shouted at Unity’s denouement), but for a few moments during this Festival, I wasn’t thinking about writing the review or the next show I was scheduled to see; instead, during these shows I was entirely in the moment. And if that isn’t the point of art, I don’t know what is.

Nathan Felix Orlando Productions
Site Specific: Stone Plaque on the Side of the Shakes Building
30 minutes; all ages
Tickets: $5

Phoenix Tears Productions
Site Specific: PO Boxes in Silver Lobby Inside Orlando Family Stage
20 minutes; all ages
Tickets: $12

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This article appears in Orlando Fringe 2026.