Improv and sketch troupe · Halifax, Canada
Corner Table
Four of us, one kitchen table, no script. A short sketch every week, and live shows around the Maritimes.
More sketches
Most run under seven minutes. All of them started as an argument at the table.
Cardboard boat, take nine
5:04 · YouTube
How we write a sketch
7:21 · YouTube
The oven door
4:18 · YouTube
Shows
An hour of new sketches, a few old ones and a game of Table Prompts with the audience. Tickets are sold by each venue.
- CA$24
Sat 6 Feb · Charlottetown, PE
Lantern Hall · 7:30pm · few left
Shop
Table Prompts to play at home, and a tee for the chair.
Chair tee
A soft cotton tee, printed to order.
Game badge mug
An 11 oz glossy mug, dishwasher safe.
The troupe
Four chairs, one table
Four of us, one of everything: a landlord, a prop maker, a straight man and a director who is also in it.
Kehinde Adeyemi
the one who plays the landlord
Kehinde writes the long monologues and then forgets them on stage.
Beck Lavoie
the one with the props
Beck builds every prop out of cardboard and will not be told it is a cardboard boat.
Hamish MacInnis
the straight man
Hamish keeps a straight face for as long as it takes the other three to give up.
Parvin Rostami
the director who is also in it
Parvin edits the sketches at night and decides what is funny by the third watch.
How the table got here
We are Corner Table, an improv and sketch troupe from Halifax. We met in a church-basement class, kept the one table we all liked, and started filming what we made up around it.
Every week we put out one short sketch. A few times a year we take the table on the road and play live in halls, pubs and a very cold community centre.
Once a month
The monthly letter
Our free monthly email: the best sketch, the one that did not make it and new show dates before anyone else. Mostly jokes.
Book us
A show in your hall, a festival slot or a night out for your workplace. Tell us the date and the room. We read everything and reply within a week.