Leonard Cohen musical premieres

It is being performed in the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick (June 10); Excel Theatre, Tipperary (11); Royal Theatre, Castlebar (13); Garage Theatre, Monaghan (14); Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge (15); and the Olympia Theatre, Dublin (June 18 to 23).
The story of a woman inmate who returns to Auschwitz in 1990, its creator is John MacKenna, who made a number of radio documentaries in the ‘90s with Cohen, and has been granted his approval to re-write ‘First We Take Manhattan’ as ‘First We Take The Reichstag’.
That and other Lennie classics will be performed by a three-piece band as the 15-strong cast do their thing on stage.