Herbert Siguenza: From Cantinflas to Culture Clash

Posted on Monday, August 31

Herbert Siguenza:  From Cantinflas to Culture Clash

Monday, November 9
Wilbur Wright College
Events Building Theater
4300 N Narragansett
7:30 – 8:30 pm
$5

Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the “greatest comic of all time,” and in 2003, Herbert Siguenza wrote and performed a tribute that explored Mario Moreno’s beginnings as a performer in the rough border city of Ciudad Juárez and his path to icon of the Mexican cinema. In this program, Siguenza weaves between performance and lecture, stitching together Cantinflas’s biography with famous film gags and illuminating Moreno’s influence on a new generation of comics and social satirists, including Culture Clash, the most prominent Chicano/Latino performance troupe in the country. Siguenza is a founding member.