"Songs of Love and Hate" is a performance adapted and directed by Slawomir Gaudin, based on the prose, poems and songs of Leonard Cohen (translated by Maciej Karpinski, Maciej Zembaty and Wojciech Fladzinski (book 'Various Attitudes')).

Placed today on a par with Okudzhava, Wysocki or Brel, Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934 to a religious Canadian Jewish family. References to God, references to the Bible and biblical quotations are present in many of his songs.

The creators of Songs of Love and Hate have focused on a plot depicting Cohen's attitude to his contemporary world, to love and, by extension, to women. In 70 minutes of poetic performance, the viewer will find all shades of the feeling called "love". From infatuation, tentative kisses, to passionate desire and then betrayal, and hatred, to move on again to tenderness and passion.

It is hoped that the performance will remind Polish audiences of the great artist Leonard Cohen.

Professor Stanisław Górka - theatre, film and television actor, educator. A graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Higher Theatre School in Warsaw. Since graduation in 1977 he has performed in the company of the Contemporary Theatre in Warsaw (until 2006), he also cooperated with the following theatres: Dramatic and New in Warsaw, Baltic Dramatic Theatre in Koszalin and Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz. For many years he was an academic teacher at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy in Warsaw, where he taught voice emission (impostation) to students using his own original method. The audience remembers Stanisław Górka most of all from the TV series "Plebania", in which he played the role of Zbyszek - the churchman, but also from the films of Kazimierz Kutz: "Zawrócony", "Pułkownik Kwiatkowski" and Andrzej Wajda: "The Conductor" and "Biesy".

He is the leader of the "Pod Górkę Theatre Society", founded in 1992, a theatre specialising in intimate vocal and acting forms. With almost thirty premieres, the actors of the "Pod Górkę" Theatre have travelled all over the world, playing several thousand performances. In 2024, he opened the Pod Górkę Theatre's Summer Stage in Kopki near Warsaw, where he presents his own performances from May to October.

Professor Stanisław Górka was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit in 2011, the Gloria Artis Medal in 2013; in 2015 he received the act of conferring the title of Professor of Theatre Arts from the President of the Republic of Poland.

Execution: Stanisław Górka
adapted and directed by: Slawomir Gaudyn
Musical arrangement: Andrew Perkman
production and variation: Anna Jędrzejczyk