John Robertson
The Dark Room
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the world’s only live-action videogame. 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:
A. Find the Light Switch
B. Go North?
C. Abandon Hope?
Now in its 11th 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 – 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: www.twitch.tv/robbotron
Total Sell-Out Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023
“You must see this show”
“Something of a masterpiece”
A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled.
“NOT TO BE MISSED!”
“What a marvellous, maddening concept this is from the twisted mind of Robertson.”
Tour dates
25 October 2024
Staggeringly Good Brewery, Portsmouth
22 November 2024
Barcadia, Norwich
1 December 2024
The Frog and Bucket, Manchester
5 December 2024
The Quarry Theatre, Bedford
8 February 2025
The Y Theatre, Leicester Comedy Festival
4 April 2025
Old Woollen Mill, Farsley
9 April 2025
The Stand, Glasgow
10 April 2025
The Stand, Edinburgh
17 April 2025
The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury
19 April 2025
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
24 April 2025
The Attic, Southampton
25 April 2025
Komedia, Brighton
1 May 2025
The Stand, Newcastle
2 November 2025
The Leadmill, Sheffield