KETCH ケッチ
CONTACT
ketchcomedy at gmail.com
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Upcoming Events
15th Oct 2023
Workshops
SHOWS
Street 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.
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. 60-90 minutes.
OTHERS
Workshops
Physical comedy workshops for beginners to professionals. Learn mime, clowning and magic and how to tell stories without saying a word.
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
- “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
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.
Learnt improvisation 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.
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.
Teaching mime at the THU Japan kick off event in Kaga.
Ketch Sketch and mime lesson tour in Hokkaido.
