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Learn how to finally beat the house! All it takes is basic strategy, a little luck, and three easy payments of $7.77. You don't even have to leave your parents' basement. Ever! A darkly comic solo show about luck, delusion and the stories we tell ourselves to keep playing. Produced by AnnaElise Morello. Directed by Katie Devin Orenstein. Sound by Nick Webster. Lights by Dean Coburn. Tech by Sadaf Habib.
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Blackjack! (and other ways to get lucky) in Your Parents' Basement is by Tom Stilwell, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at Greenside @ Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, EH1 2PG, 7 August to 15 August.
The show runs 55 minutes and is suitable for ages 16+. Tickets from £7. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes, Strong language and Strobe lighting.