The Dance Pad. Gluttony - The Peacock.  14 Feb 2016.

 

There are some shows where you sense within the first minute or two that it’s going to be a ‘dud’.  Cuban Flow was one of them.

 

The advertising for this show promised so much more than it gave. It promised a Cuban cultural experience, and if that is what it was then the budding Cuban tourist industry has just been dealt a significant body blow.  References to daily Cuban life were hackneyed and uninteresting, attempts at humor were cringe-worthy, and choreography was energetic but passé and lacked originality.

 

The cast comprised two buff Cuban guys – Piter Pantoja Lopez and Cruz Vazquez Borges – and a chorus line of “sultry sexy Tropicana show girls” (according to the advertising) who never really looked comfortable.  One suffered a wardrobe malfunction and for a time the most interesting thing on stage was whether she might rival Janet Jackson.

 

Regrettably there were several attempts at getting audience members on stage, and more regrettably two of them were subjected to a tasteless simulated sex routine at the hands of Lopez and Borges

Curiously the audience lapped up the show.

 

Thankfully Cuban Flow has ebbed.

 

Kym Clayton

 

When: Closed
Where: Gluttony – The Peacock
Bookings: Closed