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The Dark Room

The Dark Room

Sunday 1 November 2026

Comedy Interactive

Welcome to John Robertson’s The Dark Room – the legendary interactive comedy show that fuses improv, crowdwork and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame!

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

“hilarious game show” - Independent

★★★★ “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 14th 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 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.

Members get priority booking and save money on bookings.

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Planning Your Visit

Getting Here

Located in the heart of Chelmsford's West End, we are only a 10-minute walk from Chelmsford train station and a short distance from many of the city's car parks.

By Train

Chelmsford Train Station is a short walk from the Theatre. You can look at Greater Anglia to check which trains stop at Chelmsford Station.

By Bus

Chelmsford Bus Station is just around the corner from the Theatre. You can look at First Essex to check which buses stop at the Chelmsford Bus Station.

By Car

The closest parking to the Theatre can be found at Townfield Street car park (open till 11pm Mon to Sat but closes at 6pm on Sun), Coval Lane car park (entrance via Rainsford Lane, open all hours) and Fairfield Road car park, (entrance via Coval Lane, open all hours but there are restrictions in place Mon to Fri before 5pm, Fairfield Road car park is also used extensively by people visiting the city in general and travelling to London on the train so can be very busy at all times).

Visit www.chelmsford.gov.uk/car-parks for information on all carparks before your visit. Charges apply at all times.

All Chelmsford City Council car parks are now cashless. You can still pay by card, contactless payment or the MiPermit app.

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