The Khyber Sketch Comedy Series

This January, I will be launching a new series at the Khyber Centre for the Arts! http://www.khyber.ca/

The Khyber Sketch Comedy Series will be a monthly comedy show held on the third floor of the Khyber starting in January 2013. This series will act as a sister series to the 'Lilah Kemp Reading Series' and the show will be promoted through the L.K. series. There will also be a KSCS blog page and a Facebook page to attract performers and patrons. 

Essentially, the Khyber Sketch Comedy Series is an open-ended sketch comedy group. It's a sketch show that will welcome a variety of different comedians, actors, and writers to participate each month. The show will be limited to sketches, humourous short plays (or scenes from plays), funny lectures and character monologues, novelty music, performance art, and readings. Stand-up comedy is not allowed. 

The show will also involve participants of the Lilah Kemp Reading Series, and will hopefully attract fans of the L.K. series.

The KSCS will feature performances from professional artists, as well as emerging artists who are looking for opportunities to perform. As far as I know, there aren't many active sketch comedy troupes in the city right now, so this show will be a perfect opportunity for comedy writers/actors to get together and put on a great show. This series will be a partnership between myself and the Khyber. We will charge a $5 cover and there will be an intermission. Each episode will be approximately 90 minutes long, and the show will be organized according to theme.

Bill Wood will be hosting the first episode which will be happening on Thursday, January 17th. It's essentially the comedy version of Lilah Kemp and it's going to be amazing.

I've been wanting to do this for a long time and it's finally happening. I think that there are many people in Halifax who would like to join a comedy troupe and perform sketches. This series will give those people an opportunity to do that.

Anyone interested in performing for the Khyber Sketch Comedy Series can reach me here:
c.m.mombourquette@gmail.com
(for now)
There will be a separate contact email once I get the new blog page up and running. More details to come!
-C.M.