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EVENT INFORMATION
Thursday 30 October 2025
20:00 - 22:00
Studio
£14 / £12 Concessions
Plus booking fee £1.50 per ticket online/phone. Age 15+.

Welcome to THE DARK ROOM.

This legendary interactive comedy show fuses improv, crowdwork and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame! Come watch, and if you want – play – the choose-your-own-adventure madness…

Now its 13th year, this high-octane interactive show is the brainchild of comedian & cult leader John Robertson. Filled with stand-up, appalling prizes and more audience chanting than you’d get at a protest, The Dark Room is a gut-busting rock n’ roll comedy experience for everyone who buys a ticket.

Permanently on tour The Dark Room has headlined stages at Glastonbury, PAX, Download Festival, MCM Comic Con, Utrecht International Comedy Festival 2000 Trees, UK Games Expo and Bluedot Festival, and sold out at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and hundreds of theatres around the world. 

Oh, and videos of The Dark Room roasting videogames and swearing at children keep popping up on people’s social media, which is nice.

THE DARK ROOM

The crowd is trapped inside an inescapable dungeon with a sadistic videogame boss! Pick increasingly surreal options off the screen and try to escape. If you win – you get money! If you fail – YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

Now, will you; find the light switch, go North, abandon hope, or be sworn at by a man wearing spiked armour and a lot of leather? (This option is permanently set to “On”)

Age 15+

Reviews

WINNER: Chortle Award
RUNNER-UP: Next Up Biggest Award in Comedy
VIRAL AS HELL: TikTok, Instagram
SOLD OUT: Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023 & 2024

“An hilarious, participatory cult classic” – Neil Patrick Harris

“A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled” ★★★★ Telegraph, London

“NOT TO BE MISSED” – Guardian

“What a marvellous, maddening concept this is from the twisted mind of Robertson” – Chortle

“Will have you crying with laughter” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby

“Watching people tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around. Don’t miss it.” – The Daily Telegraph, Sydney

“One of the most innovative and original comedy shows around” – Manchester Evening News

“Loud, raucous and brilliantly daft, this is unrelenting fun for everyone” ★★★★★ Three Weeks

“You have to see the Dark Room at least once in your life” ★★★★★ The Scottish Sun

“You must see this show” ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide

“A game of passionate nostalgia” ★★★★★ The Skinny

“Something of a masterpiece” ★★★★★ Fringe Review

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