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Dark and Doomy (Sold Out)

£10 General admission, £8 concession
Thursday 19 March 2026
Start time:6:30pm - End time: 8:30pm
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DATE: Thursday 19 March 2026
Start time:6:30pm - End time: 8:30pm
PRICE: £10 General admission, £8 concession
AGE RANGE:
Adults
Tickets

This event is for aged 18+

General Admission - £10

Concession* (Students, unemployed / universal credit, over 60s) - £8 

*Identification required to show proof of concession required on entry.

Please note tickets are non-refundable. 

Registered Carer tickets are only valid when attending with a fully paying adult and accompanied by acceptable proof of carer identification.

We accept all photo ID carer cards such as Access Card +1, National Carers ID, CEA Card and Local Authority Carer ID Card. If you bring a PIP letter, DLA letter, Attendance allowance award letter, GP Letter, social worker support letter, or carer registration letter, then please also bring along a proof of photo ID.

Failure to provide acceptable proof of carer identification at the event will result in refusal of entry.

Book Tickets

If you're a games fan, this is an evening you won't want to miss! 

Dark & Doomy! Meet and buy exclusive signed merch and books from the godfather of the first-person shooter and cofounder of id Software and programmer, game and level designer on classic games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake, John Romero, as well as the BAFTA award-winning designer and artist on games such as Wizardry and Ghost Recon, Brenda Romero.

You'll also be able to play a selection of fantastic Doom-inspired indie games, then get ready for the outrageous laugh-out-loud live action video game-themed comedy show The Dark Room, where you and the audience have to escape an insane room full of deathtraps and fiendish puzzles. Described as a show "not to be missed"; by The Guardian. If you're a games fan, this is an evening you won't want to miss! 
 
“NOT TO BE MISSED” - The Guardian
“A game of passionate nostalgia” ★★★★★ Skinny
★★★★ Den Of Geek ★★★★ List “irresistibly dangerous” ★★★★ 
“A Rocky Horror for gamers… reader, I howled” Telegraph, London
 
The Dark Room has racked up sold-out Edinburgh Fringes, become an actual videogame and appeared at Insomnia Gaming Festival, Soho Theatre, PAX Australia, EGX, 21Soho, UK Games Expo, BlueDot, Melbourne Comedy Festival and on the global front page of the streaming platform Twitch.
 
John Romero is considered to be the "father of first-person shooters" having led the design and contributed to the programming and audio design of the iconic and genre-defining games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake, Heretic and Hexen, and his products have won well over 100 awards.  His memoir DOOM Guy was launched in July 2023 to critical acclaim. Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game designer, artist and Fulbright recipient. She has worked on over 50 games, including seminal titles in the Wizardry, Ghost Recon and Dungeons & Dragons franchises. 

 

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