What Miquel Mas Fiol was like, according to his mother: "He has always been a professional troublemaker."

PalmAt seven or eight years old, a little boy from Sant Jordi (Palma) would say to his godfather: "When I grow up, I want an office, a comfortable chair, and air conditioning." "So what are you going to have in an office?" his godfather would ask. The boy didn't care: "What he knew was that I didn't want to move boxes of fruit or do physical labor like his father, who was a wholesaler."

This is what Maria Antònia Fiol, mother of the boy who wanted an office, a comfortable chair, and air conditioning, tells the tale: the playwright Miquel Mas Fiol, born in 1996. Sometimes he has an office, not always with air conditioning, and not all the chairs he gets are comfortable, either. Whether directing, writing, acting, or producing, Miguel regularly displays his drive, leadership skills, and will to do things well. And that, his mother says, doesn't come from now.

"It's true that, as a little boy, he was very quiet. He had lung surgery when he was just five months old, but he wasn't a crybaby at all and, in general, he wasn't very demanding," explains Maria Antonia, who details that it was when he was four or five years old that a very strong curiosity was awakened in the boy: "television. When he learned to read, he read everywhere. He came back very clever. At six or seven years old, he already knew who the mayor of Palma was, a position held at the time by Catalina Cirer." She recalls that from a very young age, and still now, he has been very interested in the world of politics.

As clever as he was, he was messy: "It was total chaos. At school, his desk, everything was scattered; his hands were dirty with markers all day long. However, his little projects were perfect and interesting." This more "stuck" and "chaotic" aspect still characterizes him: "He drops things, doesn't know where he puts his keys, leaves the doors open. He's very absent-minded and easily distracted. His mind races, thinking about a thousand things at once." My mother says that, when he was little, she would sometimes scold him if he dropped something. The result was worse: "He got more nervous and even more things fell on him!"

He soon wanted to do theatre: "As a child he went to the Teatro Principal to give classes. And he has always liked to organize: at school, when the end of the year was due, he collaborated and helped in the assembly. And at 13 or 14 years old he began to be part of or collaborate in Jordi a Ni, the whole group of Ni Jordi, Nicolas, Jordi, Nicolas, Jordi, Nicolas, Nicolas, Nicolas. Mallorca", points out Maria Antònia, who details that the passion for writing came "later": "He had never written anything until he did Brianair passengersIt's not that Miguel disowns this play, but he says it has many shortcomings. The truth is that they performed many times and the audience had a blast. When he performed this piece, he hadn't yet been to the Institut del Teatre, where he had already done things that they later taught him and he learned to do well. Miquel has a great intuition for staging, for the stage... for theater in general. He just writes theater; and when it comes to acting, what he likes is theater," he says.

As a person, he claims to be "respectful and good" to the people around him: "He cares about the team and is very hardworking. And he cares for his friends and is always willing to be there to make sure everyone is happy." This runs in the family, and it doesn't mean he's entirely good: never having a no for anyone makes you forget about yourself or the people closest to you." But above all, above all, what Miquel has always been, according to his mother, is "a professional pain passer." u

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