The Catalan comedian and screenwriter Ángel Martín will close this weekend on the islands of Lanzarote the program of the first edition of the 'Reíslas Humor Festival', with two performances scheduled for September 29 and 30, respectively. For the show that Martín will present at the Teatro-Cine Atlántida in Arrecife de Lanzarote, entitled 'Punto para los locos', there is no ticket left at the box office.
The first edition of the aforementioned festival, which has also been enjoyed since last September 14 in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, has been a public success, selling more than fifteen thousand tickets for the scheduled performances of its cast of artists, which included Dani Rovira, Eva Hache, Luis Piedrahita, Kike Pérez, La Ruina, Ana Morgade or Miguel Lago, among others. The organizers of the aforementioned festival are already working on its second edition, which they wish to extend to stages on other islands of the archipelago.
Martín, admitted
In the aforementioned 75-minute show written after suffering a crisis seven years ago that forced him to be admitted to the psychiatry wing of a Madrid hospital, Martín insists that we realize that the only thing that differentiates us is not whether we are crazy or not, but how loud the voices of shame, fear, worries, impatience sound in our heads... so that the next time one of those voices returns we can make fun of it.
The comedian and screenwriter, who began his career in the world of comedy in the 90s and who became known through the 'Paramount Comedy' channel, to later be popularly known for presenting the humor program 'Sé lo que hicisteis' on La Sexta with Patricia Conde, advances that whoever goes to enjoy 'Punto para los locos' should not imagine that they will attend a session with a psychiatrist or a therapist. "For the price of the ticket I don't think so. But I'm going to start leaving a hat on stage in case someone, at the end of the show, wants to throw in 50 euros more because they feel like they've attended one of those sessions," jokes the artist who also hosted the scientific outreach space 'Órbita Laika' in 2014 and 2015 on La 2 and who has won the TP de Oro in 2007 and 2008 for 'Best Presenter of Variety and Entertainment Programs'.
Next November, Martín presents 'Detrás del ruido' in Planeta, his new book in which he shares with readers what is behind that reconstruction that he has had to carry out since he left the hospital and how he has managed to stay during these years.
He warns that "there are many things that make me laugh, although they are usually everyday situations. As I have managed to include humor in all the facets in which I work, I enjoy them all, but perhaps the one that fascinates me the most is that of a monologist. I suppose it is because of the fact of being able to see in real time if a joke that made me laugh while I was writing it, also makes others laugh when they hear it".
Martín assures that his psychotic episode has helped him find happiness. "I have undergone a brutal reconstruction on a personal level that has allowed me to park the things about myself that were a shit like a temple", he explains and concludes by stating that "I am a precious human being right now", he concludes.
The 'Reíslas Festival' offers, in its first edition, a program of about fifteen very heterogeneous and popular comedians from the national scene of the moment. David Cepo, Lalachus, Bertus, Ana Morgade, Luis Piedrahita, Ángel Martín, Eva Hache, Miguel Lago, Dani Rovira, Ger, Ignasi Taltavull and Tomás Fuentes from the show La Ruina, to which are added the Canarian Kike Pérez and Omayra Cazorla, specialists in the supreme art of comedy, make up the list of this first installment of a festival that aspires in its successive editions to tour all the Canary Islands showing the public a good part of the comic formats that constitute a formula for success that has millions of followers in our country.
