Please note: The Saturday 10th May 4:30pm session is a special family friendly version of the show.
For 12 years, a cult hit show at the Edinburgh Fringe now for the first time in NZ – 5 shows only at Q Theatre. Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the deranged interactive* improv gameshow!
Filled with stand-up, gaming, 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 - strange, insane and addictive – it’s a choose-your-own-adventure, so choose it!
We welcome you into The Dark Room!
The audience is trapped inside a live-action video game with a sadistic end-of-level boss! Audience members pick options off the screen while trying to escape a dark room full of deathtraps and insane comedy puzzles. If you win – you get money. If you fail – YA DIE and win terrible prizes. Will you: A. Find Light Switch? B. Die? C. Go North D. Gee option B looks good In the end, everybody plays! Add audience interaction, over 500 different screens (about 2000 different options), weird expansion game The Dark Lighthouse and more chanting than you get at a football match and we’re about halfway to describing what a live The Dark Room show is like!
“NOT TO BE MISSED” Guardian
“A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled” Telegraph London ★★★★
“Loud, raucous and brilliantly daft, this is unrelenting fun for everyone” ★★★★★ ThreeWeeks Edinburgh
Viral on TikTok and Insta
*little note on the word “interactive”, the performer only interacts with people who are up for it and nobody gets brought up onstage, so if that makes you anxious, don’t worry!
Presented by:
comedy.co.nz
Creative Team:
John Robertson
Audience Warnings:
May contain colourful language and adult themes.
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