exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow
exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow is a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026, performing at theSpace @ Venue 45. It has 15 performances listed, running from Fri 7 Aug, 20:35 to Sat 22 Aug, 21:15. The run has finished — every listed performance has taken place.
About this show
Graham has been the star contestant of a popular gameshow for either 4 or 327 days. Led by a series of violently charming hosts, Graham and the audience compete in a game neither party understands. The tasks are invasive, the stakes mysteriously high and the audience increasingly implicated. Part performance art, part improv show, part ethics inquiry, How to Win a Gameshow blurs the line between performer and audience-rendering everyone subject to scrutiny under the watchful eye of an ever-present, controlling, overarching force.
Details
- Venue: theSpace @ Venue 45
- Genre: THEATRE, Absurdist, Interactive
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Running time: 50 minutes
- Room size: about 89 seats — the Fringe box office sells a share of the room, not all of it
- Performances listed: 15, of which 0 still to come and on sale
Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: ramp
- Access features: Step-free access, Accessible toilet
- Venue notes: Accessible entry: Up a temporary ramp into the building then level access into the theatre. Wheelchair access type:Permanent Ramp Stairs: 1 Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.
What the reviewers said
We have captured 5 published reviews and 33 audience reviews for this show from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s own listing. The excerpts below are the reviewers’ words, not ours — follow each link for the full review.
Interactive shows can often be an audience member’s worst nightmare. Instead of being able to watch something quietly, you are dragged to the forefront and made visible to all.
The cast are uniformly excellent and adept at dealing with any and all curveballs the audience might throw. There's dancing, there's singing, there's a very tantalising cash prize..
— The Smu Reviews (5 out of 5 stars)
How to Win a Gameshow is actualising a consent we give on an almost daily basis to faceless entities. It is showing us what forms of liveness we recognise more readily than others.
— Binge Fringe (5 out of 5 stars)
Performance dates and ticket availability
- Fri 7 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Sat 8 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Sun 9 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Mon 10 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Tue 11 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Wed 12 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Thu 13 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Fri 14 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Sat 15 Aug, 20:35 — Already performed — £12.00
- Mon 17 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00
- Tue 18 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00
- Wed 19 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00
- Thu 20 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00
- Fri 21 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00
- Sat 22 Aug, 21:15 — Already performed — £12.00