KuKu by Anatoli Akerman

In the organizer's words:

In his show KuKu, Ukrainian star clown Anatoli Akerman and his partner Christoph Schiele combine poetic clowning and physical theater.

One is a bird and has a house - an oversized cuckoo clock, to be precise - from which he likes to emerge with an amused "KuKu". The other has a bird that lives in a cuckoo clock and has a habit of slamming the door in its owner's face.

In KuKu, the two of them sneak around each other in nightwear and jackets in a marvelous togetherness and antagonism. In their search for fulfillment, they stalk and ensnare each other, embrace and outwit each other, drink and knock each other down, give each other presents and steal from each other, dance with and against each other and ultimately sit in the same train of recurring routines. A play with subtle, melancholy humor that makes its audience laugh with pleasure one second and pause in wonderful silence the next.

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In his show KuKu, the Ukrainian star clown Anatoli Akerman and his partner Christoph Schiele combine poetic clowning and physical theater.

One is a bird and has a house - an oversized cuckoo clock to be precise - from which he likes to step out with an amused "KuKu". The other has a bird that lives in a cuckoo clock and has a habit of slamming the door in its owner's face. In KuKu, the two of them sneak around each other in nightwear and jackets in a marvelous togetherness and antagonism. In their search for fulfillment, they stalk and ensnare each other, embrace and outwit each other, drink, bribe and steal from the other, dance with and against each other and ultimately sit in the same train of recurring routines.

A play with a subtle, melancholy humor that makes its audience laugh happily one second and pause wonderfully still the next.