One of the most unique Fringe events is simply going to work. temping. is a singular experience in that there is no audience and no live performance. It’s simply you, in an office, getting on with the job. It may sound tedious on the surface, but Michael Yates Crowley has written a surprisingly fun, funny and emotionally deep immersive experience and, under the smooth direction of Michael Rau, it comes to life at a controlled but engaging pace. Sarah Jane (voiced by Eva Kaminsky) has gone on leave and left numerous recorded messages explaining what to do, although she often digresses into more personal territory. Her narrative is accompanied by other voicemail messages, emails, overheard conversations, and an excessively busy printer to build a picture of office politics, a potential office romance, threats of downsizing, and an unfolding tragedy somewhere else. As an actuary, each death from the tragedy needs to be recorded and statistics compiled, but from each of those deaths we capture a moment in the life of that person. Suddenly there are real people behind the cold, hard statistics and the wake-up call takes your breath away. Electric Dreams is a curated festival of immersive storytelling during the Fringe that harnesses technology to provide unique experiences. temping. meets that aim with ease, with the backstage operators able to respond to the actions of individual participants as they move them through the story. There’s unlikely to be anything else like temping. this season and nor should there be, because when the seemingly frivolous turns profound, it deserves to stand out.