“There is something I like about the madness of everyday life”

For a long time, and a really considerable time if we think about the giant steps that local comedy has taken to move away from brutal and ancient places, Dalia Gutmann has been one of the most powerful voices when it comes to humor, be it observational or that that accounts for a generation that has nothing to do with what was done before. Gutmann. The actress and comedian returned to Maipo with Tengo cosas para hacer, one of those shows where she knows how to destroy the fourth wall and speak, different from the rest but setting the standard, about her own doubts and hells, and heavens, of course, that can go from her intimate life, from their way of living self-esteem, motherhood and many more. She always used the experience as a platform to universally change the individual.

She is also directed by Esther Goris in Como te soñé, where she works alongside Ezequiel Campa, and there she plays “a writer, a bit crazy, who lacks inspiration and suddenly comes across a character she wrote, who I think, and that asks him to finish writing it. Between these two facets, although her humor always had acting, and her other roles, such as being a host on TV, or on the radio (as she had been doing in Give me air), she always has a smile with a laser look at the world around her ( or has her surrounded at times), Gutmann continues to build a tremendously unique path, although it can be linked to close people, to influences. That is why, this summer, models of crossing works, two that are not opposite but that do cross her world as an author and her world as an interpreter, say a lot about a present that has managed to build an intelligence, an effort and a millimeter capacity for comedy. that few currently have.

—Considering the premiere of an update of “I have things to do” what did you feel about defining comedy in Argentina at this time, after understanding that there are certain things that were not so funny before?

—We are a unique country, it is undeniable: everything happens to us almost all the time, living here is a mess, a roller coaster, we do not comply with a fucking rule and that is desperate, but also very funny. I couldn’t say what defines Argentine comedy, but I can say that I suspect we have a unique regret.

—You have seen a comedy grow in which you were one of the pioneers

—I started doing pure stand up and over the years I was encouraged to go further. I particularly like to challenge myself and encourage myself in other disciplines besides the monologue in the show: that’s why I sing, dance, rap, play a character, interact with the screen, send WhatsApp with my mother, and a list of things to do that the show has a crazy speed. There is something of the madness of everyday life that I love to transfer to the stage.

—What would you say defines “normal” at the moment, considering the show talks about someone to whom normal things happen?

—I say it because I act in an emblematic theater like the Maipo and I feel part of the “artistic environment” to call it somehow. But I also feel like one of the most recontra mine, much more similar to the woman I come across in the grocery store, than a celebrity.

—What do you feel makes you happy about doing comedy?

-At work I enjoy nothing more than seeing people broken down with laughter. LOVE. It makes me immensely happy. When I began to perform in bars and see that people who entered with a fretted face, left happy, I found meaning in my work.

—Do you feel that we still have a lot of humor that is behind in Argentina?

—The truth is that I don’t usually see things that don’t appeal to me and what I see doesn’t delay. But surely there must be a lot.