2016 Edinburgh Fringe
John Robertson: The Dark Room
You awake to find yourself in a Dark Room! You, the audience, must choose an option - Will you A) Find the light switch B) Cry for help C) Go North? Come and play a live action, text-based adventure game! It's a choose your own adventure - so choose it! After 4 million YouTube hits, 10 crowd-surfs, 4 death threats and sell-out shows worldwide. Cult hit The Dark Room returns to Edinburgh for it's 5th consecutive run! ***** (FringeReview.co.uk). ***** (Skinny). ***** (ThreeWeeks). 'Not to be missed' (Guardian). 'Don't miss it' (Daily Telegraph).
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Three Weeks Editors' Awards presented
As the Fringe reaches its grand finale, earlier today we presented this year's Three Weeks Editors' Awards, celebrating the ten people, productions and shows that, in our opinion, made this year's Edinburgh Festival particularly special.
ThreeWeeks, 29th August 2016Fringe Q&As: John Robertson
John Robertson talks about his Fringe show, The Dark Room.
The Herald, 28th August 2016Fringe Q&As: John Robertson
John Robertson interview.
The Herald, 26th August 2016Interview: John Robertson - The Dark Room
John Robertson interview.
Rosie Gillott, Fresh Air, 24th August 2016Voice's pick of the Edinburgh Fringe 2016
We announce, in no particular order, the best shows from our time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. The cream of the crop, only the best.
Voice Magazine, 23rd August 2016Three to see on 18 Aug
Three to see at the Edinburgh Festival tomorrow...
ThreeWeeks, 17th August 2016John Robertson: We are all subversive freaks now, right?
John Robertson talks about "freedom of speech" and the power of a suit.
British Comedy Guide, 13th August 2016The 10 weirdest shows at the Edinburgh Fringe
The world's largest arts festival always attracts its fare share of culturally-enriching oddness. For every run-of-the-mill stand-up show, there's also a 24-hour Czech mime disco. From a crash course in onanism to the joys of half-chewed bread, here are 10 of the strangest outings at the 2016 Fringe.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 9th August 201650 must-see comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe (Link expired)
Here at WOW 247 we've pooled together our comedy brains to pick out a whopping 50 shows we think make a good starting point for any Fringe adventurer.
Matthew Dunne-Miles, Finlay Greig and Craig Leiper, WOW247, 2nd August 2016EdFring 2016: the ten best new comedians
It's time for the world's largest arts festival, and once you've ignored all the lesser art forms (theatre, music, puppetry, dance, mime, writing - ugh!), you'll want some comedy. These ten acts are the funniest and most promising of the new comedy crop, as judged by their relative lack of fame, oodles of talent and grinding, desperate poverty.
John Robertson, The Huffington Post, 2nd August 2016Performances
| Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 4th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 5th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 6th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 7th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 8th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 9th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 10th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 11th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 12th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 13th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 14th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 15th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 16th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 17th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 18th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 19th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 20th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 21st Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 22nd Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 23rd Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 24th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 25th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 26th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |
| 27th Aug 2016 | 20:30 | Underbelly, Cowgate |