For the second year in a row, ALCINE Nights is here with a healthy dose of comedy and short films. This time round there are two events, both in the Corral de Comedias.
The first involves a whole festival of fresh monologues and short films (10th of November at 10 p.m.). Living under the yoke of facile monologues, good-time sitcoms and producers better versed in the art of Los Morancos than in Monty Python, a small village of indomitable comics, creators and scriptwriters holds out against the tedium of the yawning grins. Bar after bar, short film after short film, sketch after sketch, together, rising up and mostly concealed in a trench unbeknown to the enemy called Internet, new generations are staunchly defending their right to a twisted smile, a nervous laugh and a hearty guffaw.
This night we will get to know them a little better, but be careful, they bite. Hunger sharpens the mind…
The comics are Pepón Fuentes, Denny Horror, Miguel Esteban and Iggy Rubín. A range of different heterogeneous short films will be alternated with the comics, all sweetened and presented by Pierre Patán.
The second night, on Friday the 16th at 00:30, is the turn of the Ultrashow by Miguel Noguera. Crazy monologue, artistic performance and enlightened conference in equal measure, Miguel Noguera has become one of the main Spanish figures in what the critic Jordi Costa has defined as post-humour.
Despite having published books as eloquent as “Hervir un oso”, “Ultraviolencia” and “Ser madre hoy”, participated as an actor in cult films such as “Extraterrestre” and “Diamond Flash” and collaborated with new promises on the web (Vengamonjas, Los Pioneros del s.XXI) and with established professionals in the media (Manuel Fuentes and Andreu Buenafuente), Noguera in his purest form can be found on the stage.
Anything is possible in Noguera’s universe, and when he manages to get one of his concepts into your brain, you’ll never be the same again.
