Kitchen & Zone of pain...

Okay.... I won't use my liver in this blog... so I'm going to skip the critiques and go to the part of what I learnt ¬¬ Once again the famous: "What NOT to do".

Okay... beginning with the setting. It was realistic, a lot, but so elaborated and at the same time not enough. It didn't give much for the audience to actually imagine or perhaps visualize by themselves, it was ALL there. I mean, it isn't bad, but it really makes the audience bored at the very beginning. I actually was amused by how real it actually looked, although once I sat down the magic was gone because there was no magic. Perhaps if looked a little less realistic and somehow more, I don't know, with a concept, it would have captured even more our attention, like what was this and what was that.

The acting was actually, not impressive, but not that bad. The character of the wife, Martina, was represented by a famous Peruvian actress, Montserrat Brugué, was really wild and crazy. She build it accordingly, but it actually didn't fit in the staging. It is like, she wasn't following the realistic concept we had seen with the kitchen at the beginning of the play. She was furious at everyone, always yelling and screaming and making scandals, and it wasn't very funny to my consideration actually... It was rather more a desperate act of black comedy that didn't work out. If she could have been more hypocrite it would have fitted the image, because it looks like a nice place but at the end it is just an aweful one. But she wasn't, she was direct with what she thought and everything which made it really dull.

A second character, Javier, portrayed by Sergio Galliani, was the opposite of interesting. It could have pushed forward to a much better level but it was really disappointing. His voice was really annoying, he could have used a deeper tone of voice and it would have lift the character level, but the medium pitch he used was really upsetting. Something I liked was his posture, which was kind of with a hunch, but not exaggerated, and with his arms mostly in a middle level rather than let loose dangling.

Freddy, portrayed by Pablo Saldarriaga, was really my FAVORITE character because he was the actual comedy of this pseudo-comedy. His acting, and face expressions were without a doubt really convincing that he had worked and knew his character.

Well, somehow the play wasn't just good... it lacked creativity, a concept, a theme, everything a play NEEDS! seriously... The acting wasn't that bad... but with a lack of concept you lack everything in ANYTHING.

But if there was a concept, what could it have been?