King of Comedy in
Ghana, Kwaku Sintim-Misa popularly referred to as KSM has made some very
interesting revelations about how his career began as a stand-up
comedian and the initial struggles he had to endure.
Appearing for the
first time on the most influential celebrity and lifestyle show in
Ghana, Celebrity Fanzone on Viasat1 last Saturday, KSM revealed that he
was the first African to do an original one-man play on Off-Broadway but
also noted that it came with its own challenges.
"I was the first
African to have done an original one-man play on Off-Broadway. It was a
play I did in the US called, Thoughts of a Confused Black Man. I was
looking at the Black man in Africa having gone through colonization and
the black man in the US having gone through slavery. And the whole point
of the show was that both slavery and colonization had the same impact
on the black man's psyche."
KSM has over the
years grown to become arguably the best stand-up comedian in Ghana, with
masterpiece shows such as Saga of a Returnee, Afia Siriboe, and
Politically Incorrect.
Afia Pokuaa of
Multimedia who was also a guest on Celebrity Fanzone last Saturday
emphasized the importance of theatre in bringing about mental revolution
in Ghana.
"Theatre is one of the key tools we can use to cause a mental revolution in Ghana," she noted.
KSM however,
revealed that he did his first show with very little money and limited
logistics, which meant that he had to improvise at a point in time to
get his shows going.
"The theatre was so
bad that I had to go there early and clean up the venue with a few guys
who were helping set up the ticket desk. The lighting, I didn't have
money to have any lighting so I actually had a dimmer connected to some
wires on the stage, so that at the end of the show, the character dies
and when I die... I die, the lights go out."
"The theatre was so
bad that I had to go there early and clean up the venue with a few guys
who were helping set up the ticket desk. The lighting, I didn't have
money to have any lighting so I actually had a dimmer connected to some
wires on the stage, so that at the end of the show, the character dies
and when I die... I die, the lights go out."
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