Dungeon Crawl
Richard McKenzie and Ben McKenzie prepare for the Dungeon Crawl. Photo by James Penlidis.
Enter the dungeon, kill the monsters, take their treasure. That's the dungeon crawl.
Enter the dungeon, kill the monsters, take their treasure: that's the Dungeon Crawl.
Sounds easy - unless the fighter is more of a lover, the senile old wizard has forgotten his best spells, and the roguish thief has sided with the dragon...
A "dungeon crawl" is the traditional adventure played out by millions of geeks and nerds since the invention of fantasy role-playing. Now Ben and Richard McKenzie of The Anarchist Guild Social Committee (‘sketch maestros’ – Adelaide Advertiser) and +1 Sword (‘hilariously geeky...I laughed so much my jaw hurt’ – Buzzcuts/3RRR ) invite you to watch and guide the action as special guest performers go on a Dungeon Crawl of their own!
The hottest impro nerds will run through a dungeon guided by your decisions, and along the way share tales of dungeon crawls past. Dungeon Crawl is half storytelling, half impro – but all about killing monsters and stealing their stuff.
After a smash debut at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Dungeon Crawl will be returning for a limited run at the 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival! Tickets are available now!
Where: Gertrude's Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
When: Tuesday October 5 at 10:30 PM, Thursday October 7 at 10:30 PM, and Saturday October 9 at 6 PM
Tickets: $15/$12 from melbournefringe.com.au or at the door
Plus - Dungeon Crawl is coming to Sydney! Yes, it's true, we're part of the stellar line-up at World's Funniest Island on October 16 and 17. Buy a 1 or 2 day ticket, catch the ferry and see as many shows as you like - including us! For more details, see the World's Funniest Island web site.
Reviews
'very charming and frequently hilarious - 9/10' - Liam Pieper, RHUM
Comedy Festival 2010
Our first season ran late on Wednesday nights during the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival at Gertrudes Brown Couch in Fitzroy. The three sessions featured guest improvisers and comedians from across the festival!
Session one featured cabaret superstar Karin Muiznieks as Celery Blamange the rune-preist, Impro Melbourne's Jason Geary as Beryl the human wizard, Axis of Awesome frontman Jordan Raskopoulos as Griznak the Half-Orc multi-class fighter/fighter, and the Gruen Transfer's Wil Anderson as Nudge Nudge, the dwarf fighter. Their quest was to free enslaved villagers from a local dragon, who was using them as slave labour to search for the missing key to his girldfriend's chastity belt. She wasn't so keen, however, and gave the party invisible BMX bikes to help them destroy her "lover".
Session two starred Good News Week writer and Puppy Fight Social Club creator Dave Bloustien as an elderly illusionist; writer, blogger and cosplayer Clem Bastow as the half-elf druid Malcolm Turnbull; returning dungeon crawler Jordan Raskopoulos as the rogue Queerhand Fondlesax; and actor and comedian Dave Thornton as an Eskimo fighter. Awaking at the bottom of a bit in a necormancer's tower, they managed to escape and spoil his evil plans.
Session three's party were the Anarchist Guild Social Committee's fearless leader Nick Caddaye, who arrived with a character sheet for David Boon, human barbarian; by now crowd favourite Jordan Raskopoulos as a multiclass wizard/lover; Fear of a Brown Planet's Aamer Rahman as a Vulcan rogue; and actor, comedian and improviser Toby Truslove as a pacifist Presbyterian cleric. Tasked with finding a magical mushroom to cure the mayor's son, they are ambushed by a dragon but managed to escape in a tremendous explosion, despite the rogue's defection, with bucketfuls of cash.