2018 Edinburgh Fringe

Deliveroo to dispatch performers to Edinburgh doorsteps

Deliveroo in Edinburgh

During this year's Edinburgh Festival, diners' doorsteps are to be transformed into stages for the very first time.

Actors will be manning some of the deliveries for takeaway dispatch company Deliveroo. When arriving at diners' doors, they will perform the specially written humourous Shakespearean inspired monologue To Eat or Not to Eat by "HAM-let".

The production will be performed by the Bedlam Theatre Company - a unique, entirely student run theatre in the centre of Edinburgh. Any tips given to the actors will go towards supporting the group.

Joe Groves from Deliveroo says: "Edinburgh is known for its sell out shows across the city during Fringe and we don't want anyone to miss out. Immersive dining is so popular, we thought why can't we deliver drama as well as mouth-watering meals to enhance the dining experience for our customers."

For a chance of receiving a personal performance of the specially commissioned play, simply write #EdinburghBinge within the notes of your Edinburgh-based Deliveroo order.

To Eat or Not to Eat

Deliveroo in Edinburgh

Here is To Eat or Not to Eat , written by Scotland-based actor Adam Butler:

To eat, but what to eat: That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to order online or spend many outrageous hours,
Suffering through a sea of menus
And walk there to collect them? To dine: to eat; No more; and when we eat to say we end
The heartache and the thousand tempting options On Deliveroo (beat), 'tis a consumption Devoured to be wished. To dine, to eat;
To eat: perchance to Byron: That burger sauce! Or if it's BRGR what meats may come
When we have shuffled off the metal foil,
Must give us pause: Order and Collect?
That makes calamity of such short life;
For who offers the best chips of all time,
TGI's, but not Yes Sushi,
The Five Guys ones I love, Brewdog's not bad, The weekday offer at Belushi's
But I love the way KFC tastes,
Which of these will hunger slake
With a bare napkin? It's just too much to bear, To grunt and sweat under a hungry mouth,
But then the dread I fear with bated breath, The undiscovered offer, 2 for 1
No extra topping charge, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those bills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
This convenience does make cowards of us all; But thus my journey's resolution
Is satisfaction with the food I've bought,
And indecisions within the moment
With this regard their temptations awry,
We wait for confirmation. - It's gone through! The fair Deliveroo! Damn, thy onions!
Be all my sins remember'd.

Published: Friday 27th July 2018

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