Saló Diana (1977-78). The ghost of Barcelona’s paradise is a research project that recovers the memory of a paradigmatic case of theatrical self-management, the Saló Diana. The experience coincides with the end of Franco’s regime and the period of transition, a time when everything was yet to be done.
The Saló Diana is the result of the demands for the professionalization of the theatrical sector at the time and arises as an assembly experience initiated by Mario Gas, Carlos Lucena (Bujalance, 1925- Madrid, 1995) and Albert Dueso (Barcelona, 1952-2007). Located in the old Diana Cinema, on Sant Pau street in Barcelona, the Diana was born out of a need for praxis, to have an assembly environment linked to a production center in which diversity and plurality (of its members and its program) were the dominant notes.
The history of the Saló Diana, as brief as it is intense, is collected in the book Saló Diana (1977-1978). El fantasma del paraíso barcelonés (co-edited by Montse Badia and Mario Gas) through extensive documentary research, as well as interviews with a good number of people who were beginning their professional careers at that time, such as Mario Gas himself, Vicky Peña, Sílvia Munt, Ricard Borrás, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Pau Riba or Carme Elías, among others. The publication is accompanied by a public programme that will bring them together in a round table moderated by Rosa Badia.
[Interview with Mario Gas, at the program Tot és comèdia by Rosa Badia. Cadena ser (5-9-2020)->
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Interview with Marc Giró at the program Vosté Primer. RAC1 (23-9-2020)
