Diners’ doorsteps will be transformed into stages during the Edinburgh Fringe - if they order food via Deliveroo.
Deliveroo orders will be manned in the Scottish capital by actors who will perform a Shakespearean inspired monologue - written by Scotland-based actor Adam Butler - HAM-let’s To Eat or Not to Eat.
Simply by writing #EdinburghBinge within the notes of their order, diners are in with a chance of receiving a personal performance of the specially commissioned play - at no extra cost.
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 in putting on over 40 shows a year.
You can read the full monologue below
Joe Groves at Deliveroo said: “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.”
*To Eat or Not to Eat:
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.
