"Cocina y Zona de Servicio" is a play originally written by Agnes Jaoui and Jean Pierre Bacri in 1992. The script has won numerous awards and has been adapted into a movie winning several awards. This year, the play is being presented as the opening of the season in the theatre "La Plaza Isil" directed by Marisol Palacios. The play is about a group of riends who meet after 10 years of splitting, up however the reunion doesnt go as planned and multiple truths are revealed.

I was looking forward to watching this play however it didn´t live up to the expectations i had. The acting was too disjointed and unbalanced, it went from realistic depictions to exaggerated drama and comedy. There seemed to be no research behind the presentation of the play. The setting was flat, it was simply a nice-looking kitchen and even though the characters interacted in an interested way and responded according to the situation, it went form comical to dramatic.

Mnay tiems there were transitions between scenes where music was played, the bad thing is the music did not fit the previous scene and many times the end of a scene was dramatic and the music distracted the audience.
In many occassions the acting was convencing the audience the play was oriented to be a drama or a comedy but someting occurred, for instance the meal burnt in the oven while the characters argued, they left the discussion aside and never came back to it, focusing instead on the meal.

The play´s strong point is the empathy we can all feel while we watch it, we´ve all been in a reunion were secrets are revealed and everything seems to fall apart and we can´t help but empathize while we watch these characters interact.