30/12/2018 and 01/01/2019
at Centrum Kultury in Lublin
We will present a musical performance by Łukasz Witt-Michałowski telling about the place of isolation of Leonard Cohen and mysterious guests who come there to see him.
Full of new, explorative musical arrangements and unobvious humor of a Canadian bard.
In 1994, Leonard Cohen left the show business and civilization to hide in the Zen monastery at Mount Baldy, California. He became a Zen monk, receiving the Japanese name Jikan. After spending 5 years in a monastery, he abandoned it for a woman.
Body and Mystic – two worlds of Cohen …
Directed by: Łukasz Witt-Michałowski; screenplay: Łukasz Witt-Michałowski
cast: Matylda Damięcka and Łukasz Witt – Michałowski (vocals);
Tomasz Deutryk (drums); Max Kowalski (double bass); Tomasz Kraśkiewicz (electric guitar, acoustic guitar); Konrad Ligas (accordion); Daniel Moński (percussion instruments)
stage design: Piotr Bednarski, Łukasz Witt-Michałowski; costumes: ElBruzda; projections: Bart Wolniewicz; light design: Marcin “Kabat” Kowalczuk; sound production: Andrzej “Czopper” Czop
translation of the lyrics: Daniel Wyszogrodzki, Maciej Zembaty.