May 032012
 

A big thank you to all our players and audience members for making Dungeon Crawl Episode V: The Empire Crawls Back our biggest show of the year so far! We hope you all had as much fun as we did – and that you come back next time! And a special shout out to Jess and Darryl, who this year (and last) lent us some of their Star Wars costumes and props to make the show a little less $2 shop and a little more ILM.

As mentioned last night, the Emerging Writers’ Festival is coming up at the end of the month, and Dungeon Crawl fans may be particularly interested in their Revenge of the Nerds slide night on May 30. Hosted by your regular Dungeon Master, Ben McKenzie, it’s an evening of pecha kucha style quick-fire presentations from writers exposing the geeky sides of themselves. The line-up is amazing and includes Dungeon Crawl alumnus Andrew McClelland and political comedian and all-round amazing woman Courteney Hocking. It’s all happening from 7:30 at the Workers Club in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, and admission is a measly $12 ($8 concession)! Check out the full Emerging Writers events programme for lots of other cool stuff.

You might also notice a little bit of reorganisation on the site; the main Dungeon Crawl page is due for an overhaul, and as a preliminary strike, I’ve moved the summary of our past adventures to a new page, The Campaign Chronicle. You can check it out for brief descriptions of all our previous Crawls, with links to the full recaps where they exist. Not that you need to in order to follow the plot of our latest adventure; every Dungeon Crawl is self contained (at least so far). Watch out for further improvements to the site in the coming month.

Dec 162011
 

What do you get if you take the greatest story ever told – and add the nativity? Well, you get The Terminator + the nativity = The Terminativity, the twisted brainchild of Nick Caddaye and Casey Bennetto, and featuring not only Richard McKenzie as The Terminator and Ben McKenzie in three roles (count ‘em!), but many of your favourite Dungeon Crawl guests as well, including Adam McKenzie, Andrew McClelland, Scott Edgar, Steven Gates and Lawrence Leung as well! Stars Mike McLeish and Aurora Kurth will take you on the most Christmassy journey of all!

If you want to come, better book now – even with an extra fourth show, it’s looking to sell out!

Jun 152011
 

It’s a busy time for many of our wonderful Dungeon Crawlers and other comedy friends, and we hope you’ll check out what they’re up to!

This week in Adelaide Karin Muiznieks appears in the Cabaret Fringe Festival with a showcase of her songs from the last five years. We’ve often described Karin as a musical genius, and if you need proof, check out On Reflection at La Bohème from tonight until Saturday. And fret not if you’re in Melbourne; in July, after appearing in Dungeon Crawl and the Deathly Philosopher Prince’s Goblet of Azkaban, Karin and co-cabaret-conspirator Louise Joy McCrae have two shows in the Melbourne Cabaret Festival -World War Wonderful (fresh from its rebirth with a new cast in the Adelaide Fringe) and Filthy Secrets.

In Sydney tomorrow night, Lou Sanz begins a run of Not Suitable For Children at TAP Gallery. While Lou is yet to appear in a Shaolin Punk production, we’ve supported much of her work, including The Skirt Network and her previous solo shows; we’d recommend checking her out if you like your comedy dark and smoky.

Also tonight, wherever you are, you can tune into ABC1 for the premiere of Lawrence Leung‘s new show Unbelievable. Watch as Lawrence explores the world of psychics, aliens, magic and…well, lots of stuff we do in Dungeon Crawl, really. Tune in 9:30 PM Wednesdays for the next few weeks.

Finally (for now) you can catch Tripod – including crawlers Scott “Scod” Edgar and Steven “Gatesy” Gates – doing a regular spot in Melbourne on Sundays this month at the Toff in Town. Unfortunately the ticketing links are all for specific Sundays, but you can find ‘em via the Toff’s shows page.

Watch this space as I unveil our final line-up for Dungeon Crawl and the Deathly Philosopher Prince’s Goblet of Azkaban later this week – plus, if we’re lucky, some great news about Dungeon Crawl for those who don’t live in Melbourne…