La Cubana is coming to the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank for the first time with My cousin’s cooking, a comedy that blends gastronomy, humour, music, audience participation and the company’s instantly recognisable theatrical style. The show will run in Málaga from 25 November to 15 December 2026.
Gastronomy has become one of the great showcases of our time.
We eat, take photos, share, recommend, rate and turn every culinary experience into a little public display.
La Cubana has decided to bring precisely that obsession to the theatre.
From 25 November to 15 December, the CaixaBank Soho Theatre will host My cousin’s cooking, a production in which the world of gastronomy serves as a starting point for showcasing humour, music, rhythm, colour, surprises and audience participation.
A kitchen where nothing is what it seems
The story revolves around Brigitte Raventós, a Catalan chef of international renown, owner of a chain of restaurants and known for having made what is known as “the cuisine of emotions” her hallmark.
The character arrives at Málaga who has a special connection with the city: she has been married for thirty years to Fernando García, a man from Málaga with whom she shares part of her personal history.
From that point on, *La Cubana* weaves a narrative in which reality and fiction begin to blur.
In the story, Brigitte is awarded the medal of honorary citizen of Málaga and decides to reciprocate by launching her new international masterclass in the city, Feelings simmering away. But, as is almost always the case with La Cubana, what is obvious never turns out to be exactly what it seems.
Cuisine turned into a spectacle
The company uses cooking as a pretext to poke fun at a very recognisable trend: the need to turn gastronomy into a social showcase.
It’s not enough just to eat well. It also seems necessary to show where we’ve eaten, what we’ve ordered and what the dish looked like.
This relationship between gastronomy, image and public display becomes one of the driving forces behind the show.
The Soho Theatre will be symbolically transformed into a huge kitchen, whilst, at the same time, the kitchen will be transformed into a theatre.
*La Cubana* thus explores a highly topical theme: gastronomy as an experience, as a spectacle, and also as a backdrop to our own contradictions.
The world of La Cubana
The company was founded in Sitges in 1980 by Vicky Plana and Jordi Milán and became a professional organisation three years later.
Since then, he has developed a very distinctive approach to theatre, based on breaking down the barrier between the stage and the audience.
Audience participation, surprise, music, colour and the incorporation of elements specific to each city are all part of a theatrical formula that the company has been developing over decades.
In My cousin’s cooking, that local support is once again proving to be a significant factor.
Málaga is not merely the venue where the performance takes place. It forms part of the theatrical performance itself.
Málaga also takes centre stage
One of the most interesting aspects of the proposal is precisely this relationship with the city.
The story incorporates local references and establishes a direct link between the main character and Málaga.
This technique enables the show to engage with the audience in a different way.
This isn’t simply a production that visits a city as part of a tour. The city becomes part of the narrative.
And in a company such as La Cubana, which is accustomed to blurring the line between fiction and reality, this incorporation of the surroundings becomes an essential part of the experience.
From 25 November to 15 December
My cousin’s cooking It will run at the CaixaBank Soho Theatre for three weeks.
The usual functions will be the Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8.00 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 5.00 pm and 9.00 pm y Sundays at 5.00 pm.
In addition, there will be special performances on the following days: 4, 7, 8, 14 and 15 December. The show lasts approximately 130 minutes without a break and is suitable for all audiences.
The arrival of La Cubana thus adds a new event to Málaga’s cultural programme in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
And it does so using a formula that is difficult to categorise.
Because here, gastronomy is theatre. Theatre becomes cuisine. And the audience inevitably ends up becoming part of the menu.
Further information is available at the CaixaBank Soho Theatre
