Next time: Cthulhu eats your brain, werewolves eat your heart

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Feb 172012
 

March 7th is a big night at the Bella Union!

First up, our monthly Dungeon Crawl goes on an old-fashioned Cthulhu-style cosmic horror fest in The Dungeon Out of Time that Crawled Beyond Madness! Yes, lock up your Necronomicon, practise your elder sign and beware of bad dreams as Dungeon Crawl goes back to the bad old creepy days of the 1930s. Our hardbitten adventurers think their rational modern view of the world holds all the answers, but will their minds be able to cope with a glimpse of the greater horror of the unknown cosmos? Can they escape the baleful gaze of the bizarre outer gods with their sanity intact?

And, more importantly, can they kill Cthulhu and take his stuff?

Join our guests, including Nick Caddaye, Andy McClelland and Richard Watts (who wrote for the Call of Cthulhu RPG back in the day), as they pit themselves against the eldritch knowledge of Ben McKenzie and the unworldly horror that is Richard McKenzie.

Tickets $15 at the door or $14 (inc. booking fee) online – on sale now.

But wait: there’s more! Dungeon Master Ben McKenzie loves games so much, he’s not just running Dungeon Crawl – he’s also started a new pervasive social games company, Pop Up Playground. Their first public outing is a latish show on Thursdays for Comedy Festival – and you can attend a free trial performance right after the March 7th Dungeon Crawl! The show is a new twist on the game werewolf, in which you form a team with one of five guest comedians to root out the murderous creatures of the night before they kill off the village council. Guests so far confirmed are Richard McKenzie and Andrew McClelland, with more to come. Find out all the details on the Pop Up Playground web site. The show is free, but seats are limited, so if you want to stick around and see this one too, you should definitely book!

Come With Us If You Want To Live Forever

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Dec 162011
 

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!

All Hallow’s Evil

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Oct 312011
 

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!

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