John Robertson to perform 50 hour Dark Room show on Twitch
John Robertson will perform his acclaimed interactive live-action videogame comedy show The Dark Room for 50 hours on Twitch. Starting 8pm on Friday 2nd December, he'll continue performing until 10pm on Sunday 4th December 2022.
The comedian has arranged the epic stream to raise funds for the Samaritans suicide helpline and UK foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.
Robertson has converted his live stage show The Dark Room into an interactive online game show that can be played by everybody watching on his Twitch. He explains: "We've had thousands of people play at a time, voting on options that appear onscreen while being viciously attacked by an end-of-level boss who looks and sounds suspiciously like me".
The format also features individual rounds where members of the public can call in, and special guest players have been lined-up to take part in this weekend's show. Special guests set to appear include Robin Ince, Mark Watson, Bec Hill, Rosie Holt, Alice Fraser, Eshaan Akbar, Phil Nichol, Sooz Kempner, Jordan Raskopoulos, Abigoliah Schamaun, Tom Walker, Demi Lardner, Marjolein Robertson, and streamers Nanokim Knightenator, Sinvicta, DAGames, Button, RageDarling, JoshStrifeHayes, ExcessiveProfanity, Cardboard Cowboy and musicians JoJo Bellini, Laurie Black and Queen Mab, with more guests being announced in the lead-up to the show.
There's also prizes set to be given away, with sponsors including Bethesda, Overclockers, Numskull Games, Insert Coin Tees, Wired Productions, Plaion and Gallery Serpentine. Plus custom sketches for donors by streamer and artist Flosssie, along with arbitrary rewards donors can unlock, and side missions that viewers can participate in during the 50 hours.
This year's The Dark Room marathon show contains thousands of different options that viewers can select to unlock a mystery in real-time, along with "the raw spectacle of a man being destroyed for charity."
Robertson says: "The last time we did a marathon show, in 2021, somewhere between eating the world's hottest chilli and hallucinating a train, the whole thing nearly destroyed me, but to be fair, I'd grown an astonishingly poor lockdown beard at the time, so nobody would've noticed the difference."
Talking about the charities he is supporting, he adds: "Samaritans and The Trussell Trust perform vital work and deserve public support at all times, but they require urgent help right now. Suicide is a hideously common killer, especially at Christmas, and food bank use in the UK is higher than it's ever been."