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Dungeon Crawl: The Returnening!

Benjamin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:09:33 +0000

February 1, 2012. Not the end of the world. Not the day Skynet becomes self-aware. Not the date the Doctor must die. It’s the date Dungeon Crawl returns to the stage at the Bella Union! We’re finalising our guests, making notes in our secret DM’s book, and getting ready to blow your mind for another [...]

Come With Us If You Want To Live Forever

Benjamin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:01:14 +0000

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!

The Knights Before Christmas

Benjamin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:29:18 +0000

As Christmas appears on the horizon, Dungeon Crawl gets ready to go out for 2011 with a festive bang – after all, both dungeon crawling and Christmas are all about the triumph of good and getting lots of loot. Right? On Wednesday, December 7, features crowd favourites Nadia Collins (The Big Hoo-Haa), Brenna Courtney Glazebrook (all the way from Sydney!), Casey Bennetto (KEATING!) and Scott Edgar (Tripod)! No doubt Dungeon Santa Ben and his evil elf Richard will cook up something suitably twisted to celebrate the season in true fantasy adventure style.

Tickets are, as usual, $14 from bellaunion.com.au or $15 on the door – and this is your last chance to catch the show until we return in February, so we hope to see you all there!

If you’re looking for other nerdy ways to celebrate Christmas, by the way, you should definitely book your tickets now for The Terminativity, Nick Caddaye and Casey Bennetto’s musical mashing up The Terminator and the nativity story. Featuring many Dungeon Crawl favourites including Steven Gates, Scott Edgar, Andrew McClelland, Lawrence Leung and no less than three McKenzies – Adam, Ben and, as the Terminator, Richard! Book now for the smash hit of last year, returning for three shows only, Tuesday December 20 to Thursday December 22; tickets $34/$24 (or $27 for groups of six or more) from bellaunion.com.au.

All Hallow’s Evil

Benjamin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:11:01 +0000

It’s close to midnight…and something evil’s lurking in the dark! Well, that’s often the case at Dungeon Crawl, but this week is Halloween – All Hallow’s Eve – and so this Wednesday the creepy, spooky, even the kooky are coming out to play. (Yes yes, I know it’s a modern commercial bastardisation of Samhain, and that in the southern hemisphere it should be happening at the start of May, but let’s not bring Pagan politics into it.)

Four brave adventurers – Toby Halligan, Amanda Buckley, Nick Caddaye and Geraldine Quinn – will strap on the armour and pick up the sword, wand, bow or magical thingamebob in order to ward off the forces of darkness that emerge at this time of year. Like, um…sunshine? Redbacks? Yes! But more evil. Like…giant redbacks!

Whatever those horrors may be, you can be sure your Dungeon Master Ben McKenzie won’t make it easy for your heroes. Certainly, he has plans to be as horrible as his usual minion Richard McKenzie, who can’t be with us this month as he will be suffering unspeakable torment in the ninth circle of Carceri! Or on holiday on a tropical island, it’s hard to say. But in any case, standing in will be the redoubtable yet surprisingly evil Sean Fabri.

As usual, it all kicks off at 8:30 PM at the Bella Union. Doors open from 8, tickets $15 on the door or $14 in advance from bellaunion.com.au. This is our second last one for the year, and we’re taking a break in January, so let’s make it a big one!

Free for Fringe!

Benjamin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:50:14 +0000

Dungeon Crawl is, as you know, a monthly show. We intend to take Januarys off – even we want some time off after Christmas and New Year – but otherwise, you’ll see us eleven times a year. And October is no different, even though it falls during the Melbourne Fringe Festival!

This year, we’re doing a later show (so as not to clash too badly with the Fringe programme), and to sweeten the deal further, we’re making the Fringe edition free! We’ll produce a great line-up of comedians, improvisers and Fringe Festival performers, including at this stage returning favourites Jimmy James Eaton and Louise Joy McCrae; all you need to bring is a sense of humour and a few helpful suggestions.

Our Free Fringe edition is on Wednesday, October 5 at 9:30 PM. Note a few sources list other times for this month’s show, but 9:30 is definitely the correct one!

See you there.