Portofino-Ballade is a play with music and puppets for curious people from the age of 7.

It’s all timing. Mr Cuckoo pops out of the clock on the hour, every hour, year in, year out. That’s his job. His son hangs out in the back room, bored to death. He doesn’t want to take over his father’s job; he wants to make his own way in the world.

Playing a double bass that opens up like an advent calendar, a musician takes us into the land of “what if? “ What if double basses were clocks? What if cuckoos were men?

A poignant story of family and freedom and what they really mean.

If I was a helicopter, I would fly, fly, fly
and I carry you right in my belly.
For I’m no helicopter and I don’t fly, no no,
but I carry you in my heard instead.

* 19 Sat, 7:30 PM
* at Ranga Shankara
* English, 60 mins
* PW: Peter Rinderknecht
* Dir: Andreas \’Paulchen\’ Gunther
* Troupe: Peter Rinderknecht, Switzerland
* Phone: 9886998550