When one reaches their forties, it's time to take stock of their existence. And in that transition, Kike Pérez wanted to be grateful to the theater that first gave him the opportunity to present himself in public with the show with which he began his successful artistic career twelve years ago. On February 14, Valentine's Day, the Lanzarote comedian premieres his latest show entitled Entradas ProhiVidas in his native island where he was born in 1985, with which he will later tour countless spaces and stages in the Canary Islands.
Pérez will return to Tías on April 14 in a second performance scheduled, due to the demand from the public who have already sold out the tickets for the first scheduled performance. "Tías was the first theater in the Canary Islands that had the recklessness to let me perform solo in 2012 with my show Las apariencias engañan. I haven't returned to Tías for many years. I'm half from Las Cuatro Esquinas and in the summer from Famara," says Kike Pérez, who, in his new montage, wonders aloud if he has reached the top or an abyss once he has reached forty.
"It talks about self-love and the vital insecurities that often cause you to stop loving yourself when life seems to be going downhill. My magic trick is to try to make the things I tell you connect with you and see yourself reflected in the situations I touch and propose."
The challenge of reinventing oneself
Pérez was working and polishing this new installment whose tour is distributed by Multitrack for two intense months of work. "After I've been getting older, my shows have been getting more depth. I already know what the public laughs at. Before, I solved things directly and from the four corners, and now I like to take a winding road that guarantees you different perspectives," says the comedian who in 'Entradas ProhiVidas' chooses to take the so-called midlife crisis to the absurd as an effective resource for survival.
"I lock myself up alone and then process the show with my creative team. One alone doesn't get anywhere. I feel like I found a path and that is reflected in this show more than ever. It is a show made with the heart, like each annual proposal, in which I continue trying to show the little talent that I can gather, with my most loyal weapon, honesty. It is difficult every year to formulate a new proposal. I have undertaken seven different shows. That's a lot. That is achieved knowing that every year you will have spaces available in the Canary Islands to carry out different proposals, which also implies a challenge when we talk about a limited circuit and a finite public."
When considering a balance of these first forty years of existence, Kike Pérez emphasizes that "it is positive, mainly because I am here. And if we are here, it is because we have overcome everything that is behind us. I allude to the sought-after luck because I feel fortunate to have found a path in which the public has allowed me the luxury of feeling respected and loved through a tool as human as humor. From laughter we can heal because worries are not incompatible with a smile," he adds.
Kike Pérez does not like to sentence, but now more than ever before he has realized that "it is about adding life to the years and not years to life. At this point in my life, without the need to be dramatic, I think I can assure you that just by having saved myself I can tell the world that sadness is not incompatible with a smile. With humor I turn life around," concludes one of the most promising Canarian comedians of the moment.
