Musical Cabaret: Lucy van Kuhl "Cleverly Wrapped"

We live in an age where packaging seems more important than content: a simple chocolate bar becomes an exclusive taste experience through advertising, a janitor gets the title of facilities manager instead of a raise, and love no longer arrives by chance with Cupid's arrow but is algorithmically matched through Tinder and Parship.

A German named Heinz Günter suddenly dresses up in a striped shirt and beret during a holiday in France, then wonders why nobody takes him for Jean Pierre despite carrying baguettes under both arms... Packaging isn't everything.

Lucy van Kuhl wraps her insights in her fifth programme with remarkable cleverness: absurd observations are wrapped in gentle piano sounds, tiny observations magnified through a poetic lens, and the sadness of a nursing home transforms into a wild party for the over-80s. Delicate melancholy meets boisterous nonsense, classical piano meets boogie woogie. If you think that doesn't harmonize - Lucy's overflowing imagination holds it all together like a gleaming gift ribbon.