ALAIN GAUTRE about Gabriel Chamé Buendía
:« The first thing we can say about Gabriel is that he’s a comic and we find it easy to like him: he’s a clown…For a director and playwright, it’s terribly difficult to work with him, as he comes up with a hundred ideas per second, he’s a genius of improvisation. Happily, he is also a poet, and that calms him down a little.
We may find in him, apart from an extreme and vertiginous humour, “porteño” melancholies, where the spirit of the tango introduces twilight notes into laughter. We move on from the Marx Brothers to Borges. And he makes us feel that essentially they’re the same thing, Gabriel has the discreetness of the uneasy, the talent to turn his wound into a smile that opens up to the world. Anyway, he’s an indomitable comic. He performs marvellously with his body and masters time with the public. He’s a master with a heart. A great clown »
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