Dungeon Crawl is back tonight with our regular monthly D&D-themed comedy impro adventure fest! Tonight our guests are comedian Brenna Courtney Glazebrook, improviser and current face of the Yellow Pages Jimmy James Eaton, and composers and cabaret superstars Karin Muiznieks and Casey Bennetto! And of course I’ll be joined by player-slayer extraordinaire, Richard McKenzie, who will have a minion of his own in the form of actor and gamer, Jessica Hutchinson.

As always, tickets are $14 via bellaunion.com.au, or $15 at the door.

We’re also pleased to announce that we have now confirmed that Dungeon Crawl will continue on in its current monthly form until at least the end of the year, so you’ll have six more chances to catch your favourite comedy nerds fighting the good fight for fortune and glory!

And, as previously announced, don’t forget our July 6th show is the very special Dungeon Crawl and the Deathly Philosopher Prince’s Goblet of Azkaban. Yes, it’s a tribute to the Potterverse in celebration of a certain boy wizard’s final film! Stay tuned for line-up details and more news.

 

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!

 

Last week, a party of stout adventurers – Celery Blamange the rune-preist (Karin Muiznieks of First Against the Wall – which opens tonight!), Beryl the wizard (Jason Geary of Impro Melbourne), Griznak the Half-Orc multi-class fighter/fighter (Jordan Raskopoulos of the Axis of Awesome) and Nudge Nudge the dwarf fighter (Wil Anderson) – rode invisible BMX bikes in an epic fight montage to free a band of singing miners from a dragon who had forced them to search for the key to his girlfriend’s chastity belt.

I bet you never played a session like that at home.

This week, we welcome a new band of adventurers – freelance writer, music critic and broadcaster Clem Bastow (The Audition); philosopher, Good News Week scribe and improviser Dave Bloustien (Puppy Fight Social Club); comedian, actor and writer Dave Thornton (A Different Kind of Normal) and the return of our first session favourite, Jordan Raskopoulos (Infinity Rock Explosion)! Come on down for the mayhem that only comedians playing a late-night loose improvised version of Dungeons & Dragons can provide…

10:30 PM, Wednesday April 7th at Gertrudes Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. Book online at comedyfestival.com.au, via Ticketmaster on 1300 660 013, or get your tickets at the door!

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