The Dark Room

Winner of Chortle Legend Of Lockdown 2020.  Sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024.  Welcome to The Dark Room, the world's only live-action, text-based adventure game.  It's strange, insane and addictive, it's a choose-your-own-adventure, so choose it.

How do you play?  The audience is trapped in a retro videogame with a sadistic end-of-level boss.  Choose your options, survive the abuse simulator that is the improv comedy overlord John Robertson, and escape to win £1000 or, be brutally murdered by the rest of the crowd.  Now, will you:
Find the light switch?
Go north?
Abandon hope?

Now in its 12th year, this high-octane interactive show is the brainchild of comedian and cult leader John Robertson.  Filled with stand-up, appalling prizes and more audience chanting than you'd get at a protest, it's a gut-busting rock n' roll geek experience for everyone who buys a ticket.

John has performed The Dark Room to crowds of thousands at comedy, fringe, rock and gaming festivals, and to hundreds in theatres and arts centres around the world.  These include Insomnia Gaming Festival, London Film & ComicCon, Sci-Fi Weekender, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, FringeWorld Perth, Leeds International Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, PAX Australia, EGX London, 21Soho, headlined the comedy stage at BlueDot Festival and multiple residences at Frog & Bucket Manchester and Soho Theatre.  And of course, to millions of fans online on his Twitch Partner channel.

★★★★ 'A Rocky Horror for gamers… 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' ★★★★★, ThreeWeeks.
'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.