The Dark Room

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC+00:00

Edge Hill University, St Helen's Road, L39 4QP Ormskirk, United Kingdom | Ormskirk

The Arts Centre EHU
Publisher/HostThe Arts Centre EHU
The Dark Room
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Monday 10 November 7:30pm
The Dark Room
WINNER Chortle Award
RUNNER- UP NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy
VIRAL AS HELL TikTok, Instagram
SOLD OUT – Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023 & 2024
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the legendary interactive comedy show that fuses improv, crowd work and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame!

“An hilarious, participatory cult classic”
Neil Patrick Harris
★★★★
“A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled”
Telegraph, London
Come watch, and if you want – play – the choose-your-own-adventure madness!
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?
Be sworn at by a man wearing spiked armour and a lot of leather?
(This option is permanently set to “On”)
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.
“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
“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
Tickets: £10 / £5 EHU Students & EHU Graduates
Age Guidance: 15+
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