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!

 

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!

 

…if by “home” we mean back to normal, post-Comedy Festival life, then yes, this week we are homeward bound! But the Late Night edition of Dungeon Crawl is going out in style, with a terrific line-up of guests including Barry Award nominee DeAnne Smith (About Freakin’ Time), one of the busiest men in the Comedy Festival Scott Brennan (Talking Poofy, Spontaneous Broadway), improviser extraordinaire Michelle Nussey (The Big Hoo-Haa) and Raw Comedy finalist and Comedy Zone veteran Laura Davis (The Dog in the Ink), plus some extra special guests: old friend and Anarchist Nick Caddaye (Filthy Secrets) and veteran storytellers James Dowdeswell and Sarah Bennetto (Storytellers Club)! And some others, probably. Who will they be? Well, we don’t know yet. I mean, we know who they might be, but when we’re not sure, it’s much more fun to keep it a surprise, yes? We’re sure we’ll see you there at 11 PM to find out…

And of course, just because it’s the last Late Night show, don’t go thinking we’re going anywhere; the monthly Dungeon Crawl continues in our normal, first Wednesday of the month 8:30 slot beginning in May – kicking off with a special Star Wars themed show on (when else?) May the 4th!

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