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Ketch's Comedy Show
The all ages non-verbal comedy show from one of the current masters of silent comedy. It’s an ingenious mix of mime and magic, clowning and juggling with hilarious audience involvement. 10-40minutes. For theatre, street and TV.
Theatre Show "Ketch Sketch"
Ketch Sketch is the new all ages non-verbal theatre show. It's a story of Ketch and his pet - Max. Ketch tries to celebrate Max's birthday with audience but...
It’s an ingenious mix of mime and magic, clowning and juggling with hilarious audience involvement. Ketch even plays the ukulele and puppetry. 60-80 minutes.
Performed at 9 cities in Japan and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 with 5 star review.
Produced by Impresario.
Ketch and his assistant will tell you the world famous story “The Three Little Pigs”
but the main character is the villain wolf.
All the illustrations by Rie Inoue. 60 minutes.
Produced by Yorunohate.
OTHERS
Workshops
Physical comedy workshops for beginners to professionals.
Learn mime, clowning and magic and how to tell stories without saying a word. In English or in Japanese.
Directing
Ketch works with actors, circus artists, children's theatre companies, mimes and clowns helping them create non verbal shows. In English or in Japanese.
BIOGRAPHY
Early years
1990-1999
1990-1992
While Ketch was at University he studied mime at The Tokyo Mime Institute.
1993-1999
Performances on the streets in Tokyo and at several mime festivals in Japan and Korea.
Solo theatre shows and group theatre mime shows in Tokyo.
1999
Performances at festivals in The Czech Republic and Germany.
Gamarjobat years
1999-2019
In the UK Gamarjobat have starred on ITV’s Tonight at the London Palladium, been twice winners of BBC’s BAFTA award-winning The Slammer and fronted Ketch! and HIRO-PON Get It On on BBC3.
“Irresistibly, endearingly funny and undoubtedly the most skilled and clever comedy in Edinburgh.” The Scotsman
“A physical comedy master-class, this double act have made vaudevillian silent comedy their own.” The Guardian
“Cartoon characters come to life” The New York Times
“Utterly mesmerising” The Telegraph
“A physical comedy masterclass…This double act have made vaudevillian silent comedy their own” The Guardian
“This Japanese physical comedy duo are a cross between Laurel and Hardy and Madness. Kids and adults will love their breathtakingly brilliant slapstick clowning. I can’t wait to take my children, who will talk about this for the rest of their lives” Stewart Lee, The Times
“I’ve tried, and I’m certain that there’s no real way to convey in words just how fantastic this show is” Three Weeks
“Hilarious physical comedy duo from Japan will transcend anything you think you know about clowning, magic and mime” Chortle
“I have never seen a show that I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone, regardless of age, sex, colour, or ideological leanings – until now” The Scotsman
Today
2019-Now
In 2019, Ketch left Gamarjobat and started working as a solo performer, teaching physical comedy workshops and working as a director of physical comedy.
Honed his improvisation craft with Keith Johnstone and clowning with Philippe Gaulier.
Taught mime for an improvisation theatre group in Milan Italy.
2020
Physical comedy direction for the Puppetry Clown company ‘Bunk Puppets’ in Melbourne.
Physical comedy workshops, TV shows in Nagasaki.
Appointed as an ambassador of Unzen-city in Nagasaki.
2021
Physical comedy workshops in Fukuoka.
Helped direct a Japanese new circus show “Senko hanabi” and its spin-off.
Created and performed a new non-verbal comedy theatre show “Ketch Sketch”.
2022
Ketch Sketch in Nishinomiya and Fukuoka.
Helped to direct the theatre FideriFidera to create their new family show in Brighton, UK.
Artisti in Piazza. Pennabilli, Italy.
Workshop in Osaka and Fukuoka.
Performed and did workshops in 26 schools.
Casted on a Japanese documentary TV programme. They filmed Ketch Sketch and England + Italy tour.
2023
Created a kids’ show “I am the Big Bad Wolf” and performed it Honda Theatre in Tokyo.Sell out!
Ketch Sketch in Kobe.
Fremantle International Street Arts Festival.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Created a circus show “Imparked Circus” and performed as a clown in it in Oita.
“I am the Big Bad Wolf” in Suzunari, Japan.
Teaching mime at the THU Japan kick off event in Kaga.
Ketch Sketch and mime lesson tour in Hokkaido.
2024
“I am the Big Bad Wolf” in KAAT, Japan.
Ketch Comedy show at Teatro Fisico in Torino, Italy.
5 days Physical comedy workshop in Teatro Fisico in Torino, Italy.
Ketch Sketch in Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK. Full run in August.
Ketch Sketch tour in Hokkaido and Fukuoka, Japan.
