Script and direction: Wojciech Kościelniak
Music management: Marcin Powalski
Choreography: Mateusz Pietrzak
Vocal training: Julia Chmielnik
Costumes and set design: Bożena Ślaga
Light direction: Armand Urbaniak
Artistic coordinator: Katarzyna Witkowska
Assistant director: Aleksandra Bernatek

Music band members:
Marcin Powalski - piano
Błażej Kozłowski - percussion
Kamil Guźniczak - bass
Aleksander Sucharski - electric and acoustic guitar

Cast:
Wiktor Dębski - DYLAN
Kirył Pietruczuk - CAPTAIN
Marcin Walkowski - TIRLI BIM
Bartłomiej Dargiewicz - TIRLI BOM
Hubert Sycz - QUEEQUEG
Karolina Kowalska - MOONBIRD
Emilia Lewandowska - CHLOE
Aleksandra Bernatek - EDIE
Maria Adamska - SUZE
Oliwia Adamowicz – DARK LADY
Olga Rayska - Mrs THOMAS

One of the reasons Bob Dylan came to New York in the early 1960s was to meet Woody Guthrie, the idol of his youth, who was then in a mental hospital. Although, later it turned out that he was not actually mentally ill, but was suffering from Huntington's Chorea.
A few years earlier, when the author of "Like a Rolling Stone" for the first time heard Guthri's records from an album, he experienced - as he himself said - an artistic awakening, an internal explosion of a million megatons, as a result of which he simply began to imitate him. He wanted to have a similar voice, he played the guitar and sang in the same way. This imitation was almost idolatrous.
Woody Guthrie was one of the most famous representatives of the "hobo" culture - itinerant vocal musicians who travelled around the United States performing in random places in return for accommodation or food.
Unfortunately, this fascination for young Dylan turned out to be a trap. He began to loose his own artistic identity, becoming merely an epigone and a follower. Since folk music circles would not forgive for such mistakes easily, he was brutally reproached for it.
Feeling defeated, the artist left the city in search of a new beginning. It is known from his recollections that the first months in New York were difficult. Random places to stay, shows for a meal, hanging out in music stores, in libraries, renting a room for pennies from friends, uncertain search for his own style, first concerts, entering the world of the bohemian Greenwich Village.
Bob Dylan gained experience, learned things, got to know people and trends. He also found the hospital where Woody Guthrie was staying and visited him regularly. He sang songs to him and brought him cigarettes. Amazingly, the "true voice of America" - as Dylan called Guthrie - enjoyed no favours in the hospital, and his suffering was no different from that of other patients. It was then when Dylan composed a song for him entitled "Song for Woody".
Fate wanted it to be heard by John Hammond from Columbia Records, one of the most important record labels, and captured by the strength of the song  invited Dylan to the studio.
It's hard to resist the impression that the future master became one of the symbols of the 1960s revolution and sold 200 million albums, perhaps because he once paid tribute to the master of his youth. Nowadays, our understanding of career makes us focus on ourselves, promote our own ego and sensitivity, whereas Bob Dylan at the beginning of his career, decided to honour Woody Guthrie, who was dying in oblivion. It is unusual and worth the theatre.

The show by exceptionally talented young students of the Lodz Film School presenting Bob Dylan's texts and music, will take you to his times and places.

THE PREMIERE IS ON 13 APRIL, 2022
STUDYJNY THEATRE IN LODZ

Poster, leaflet, invitation and graphic design: Krzysztof KUKI Iwański

WE INVITE YOU TO THE SHOW!!!