May 102011
 

A huge thanks to all who showed up in force (ha!) to support our Star Wars themed show, Dungeon Crawl: A New Hope! Aamer the Jedi Academy dropout (Aamer Rahman) was convinced to lead a rag-tag bunch of “heroes” including Fitz Roy, the hispter Twi’lek bounty hunter who provided transport in her one-speed spaceship the SS Animal Collective (Clem Bastow), Benjamin Salivaface, a Gammorean guard with a dream to succeed on Tatooine’s Got Talent (Scott Edgar) and Oscar the Garbage Droid with a terrible secret (Adam McKenzie). On their mission to steal the plans for the “giant shooty death dog thing” they encountered a drunk Imperial officer, a surprisingly easily recruited Wookiee, an oddly familiar scenario involving a garbage compactor and a creature with one eyeball (guest star Simon Barber) and a shocking betrayal!

Thanks also to the local garrison of the 501st Legion, who showed up in uniform to lend an air of authority to proceedings, and to Craig Tonkin and the folk at Primordial Productions, who not only provided a copy of Suburban Knights episodes one and two for us to screen, but also a copy to give away to the best audience suggestion! (Which was, by the way, when I asked for a different “Mos” something as a place on Tattooine, and a couple of wags suggested “Mos Def”!)

We’ll be back on June 1 with another D&D themed adventure, this time featuring Brenna Courtney-Glazebrook, Jimmy James Eaton, Karin Muiznieks and Casey Bennetto! Plus, as we sneakily announced on May the 4th, our July show will celebrate both the release of the last film in another amazing franchise, and the Melbourne Magic Festival: yes, July 6th will be Dungeon Crawl and the Deathly Philosopher Prince’s Goblet of Azkaban. Both shows unmissable, so we’ll see you twice!

Apr 252011
 

Thanks to everyone who came down to the Bella Union on a Wednesday night for the Late Night Dungeon Crawl! We had a blast, and so did all our wonderful guests from the Comedy Festival. We managed to capture some of them in moving pictures with the aid of an imp in a box, so expect to see some clips appearing here soon for those of you who missed out.

But Dungeon Crawl is for life, not just for Festival, and our monthly show returns with our first ever foray into the world of Star Wars! We love D&D, but our geekery is multi-dimensional, so on May the 4th (when else?), Richard McKenzie will learn to speak bocce and Ben McKenzie will trade his Dungeon Master’s cloak for some Sith robes as we ditch the magical medieval fantasy tropes of magic swords, dragons and spells for a completely different world of lightsabres, rancors and mind tricks in a galaxy far, far away!

Featuring guest Jedi rebel scum Scott Edgar (Tripod), Clem Bastow (3RRR, The Vine), Adam McKenzie (Watson) and Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) plus assorted smugglers, stormtroopers, droids and muppets engaging in all kinds of scum and villainy!

Show starts at 8:30; tickets are as usual $15 on the door, or $14 pre-booked via bellaunion.com.au.

UPDATE! Stick around after the show to enjoy the very Australian comedy fan films Suburban Knights and Suburban Knights Episode II: Death Crush! You can find out more about these at the Suburban Knights web site – and you might even win a copy of your very own!