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Live Art Meets Fresh Stand up in Sketch/Comedy
Explosive Hilarity: Live Art Meets Fresh Stand up in Sketch/Comedy
Sketch/Comedy is back in 2016, bringing its uniquely impromptu mix of stand up and live drawing to this year’s NZ Fringe Festival. A hilarious mash-up of spontaneous art and comedic storytelling, Sketch/Comedy combines the talents of a savvy sketch artist, award-winning hosts and the capital’s best stand up comics to bring Wellington four never-before-seen (and never-to-be-repeated) comedy experiences.
The NZ Fringe Festival season of Sketch/Comedy features artist, comedian, and new Dad, Gerard Paapu. Gerard hasn’t rehearsed with the performers, and has no idea what each of them will say. "I imagine this will be like playing a no-holds-barred game of drunk Pictionary, with a live audience,” says Gerard. “I can't wait to hear the performers’ stories. And I love that I get to take images out of their heads and explode them onto a digital canvas."
With just a laptop and a projector to help him, Gerard will illustrate on the fly, in real-time… and the performers have no idea what could come out of the end of his pen.
The season also showcases an outstanding selection of Wellington’s comedic talent, fronted by MCs Jonny Potts (Best Stand Up Show, NZ Fringe 2015) and Jerome Chandrahasen (Best MC, Wellington Comedy Awards 2015). Also performing are 2016 Billy T Award nominee Alice Brine; 2013 Wellington Raw Quest winner Nik Bruce-Smith; director, aid-worker and burlesque star Rachel Rouge (The Menagerie); and veteran improviser, Greg Ellis (The Improvisers).
Each of Sketch/Comedy’s four Fringe Festival events has a unique line-up and theme. Watch as romantic escapades and errors are frantically re-created on ‘Date Night’, and don’t miss the artistic gold that’s sure to come from the risqué revelations during the one-off 10.30pm ‘Late Night’ show.
But whether you pick one night or catch all four, every Sketch/Comedy show promises a unique, unpredictable, unrepeatable showcase of some of the best in Wellington comedy.
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