2024-04-07 06:05:02
He started out as an actor, then he became a television scriptwriter and today he shares playwriting with his position as president of Argentores (General Society of Authors of Argentina). It is Miguel Ángel Diani, who premiered his work Who’s Calling? in El Tinglado (Mario Bravo 948) on April 5. It is on Fridays at 8 p.m. and its cast is made up of: Alejandra Bignasco, Alfredo Castellani and Pasta Dioguardi, directed by Daniel Dalmaroni.
—Is it true that you acted with Vittorio Gassman?
—(Laughs) Yes. In the eighties I graduated as an actor at the Municipal School of Dramatic Art (EMAD), then I continued studying with Carlos Gandolfo. When Vittorio Gassman toured his show – Il Teatro Fa Male – with texts by Shakespeare, Pirandello and Beckett, he always went with an Italian actor (Nino Prester) and looked for another on the spot. Here in Buenos Aires I tried out and was chosen to be in the Opera theater in 1982.
—At what moment did your vocation to write begin?
—The playwright appears out of necessity. When I finished at EMAD I started looking for texts that I felt identified with and I couldn’t find them. Then I decided to write. We did performances and it became a way of life. It was before what is called stand up today. We told him monologues and we did them in clubs. At the same time I started working on television.
—Were you the scriptwriter for four seasons of the success of “Son de ten”?
—I feel like a lucky man. I believe in the generosity of the people who gave me a hand. It is very important to have someone who, if they see something in you or can help you, is present and in my life there were several. I also wrote Learning to Fly, Ladies’ Detective, and the second version of La Nena, among other fictions. It was the time of Alejandro Romay on Channel 9, the entire nineties until 2000. They were years of a lot of television movement, then the paradigm began to change. The author stopped having significant weight and the channels began to work with independent production companies.
—Other of your works have already been released, such as “The Boy in the Blue Room” (2022) and “Presentimiento” (2023), now Who’s Calling? In all three there are few characters and in closed environments: why?
—For me the issue of links is important. The family, which can be tremendous, is a starting point for your life to explode later. I believe in that a lot, I even have a book called Elephants and other theatrical texts, where I work on the theater of cruelty. They are works of four or five characters and I almost always place them in closed places. As happens in life, one as a person is crossed by our history, parents and ties. What happened to us in childhood we carry with us forever.
—Argentina’s past is very present…
—Yes, although I always resort to black humor and in Who’s Calling? I further developed the humor of the grotesque. It is a call for reflection, but the Falklands War is very present. A character did not dare to go fight for his country and faces a fortuitous situation, which he has to experience and seeks revenge. The piece proposes a paradigm shift. Everyone as a society and the postmodern world is currently going through a new industrial revolution, with the advancement of technology. Trades and jobs are left along the way, for new ones, but this time with the aggravating circumstance that we link it with artificial intelligence. It is a new era of displaced people, not only from a labor point of view, but also in values.
“We do not ask the State for a cent”
Miguel Ángel Diani is the successor of very illustrious presidents at Argentores, among them, Alberto Migré and Roberto Cossa. He remembers: “I was general secretary for ten years and it was Tito Cossa who told me that he should be the next president of the entity. After two terms he decided to dedicate himself more to culture and leave the management part, because it takes up a lot of your time. Argentores does not have financial problems. The proposal for the omnibus law against management entities is something that we fought during the summer so that it is understood that we are not asking the State for a single cent. We have had a mutual insurance company for 114 years and we provide our members with prepaid and pensions.”
When asked about the current management of the national government, he explains: “In general, Argentines are a very beaten people, I think we have everything to make a great nation. But sometimes we have not had much luck with some rulers. I think we have to make a mea culpa, especially the people who have had the responsibility of carrying out policies in the last twenty years on their shoulders. We have not resolved either the issue of insecurity or the economy. I feel that the people, despite making mistakes, are still intelligent and that little by little they are going to get back on track and see what the reality is. I hope that when the time comes to make decisions again, they will not be tinged with anger or revenge, but that we can really vote for what we want and not against it.”
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