The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw is inviting the public to an open-air theatre performance of Stanisław Wyspiański’s November Night on 12 November 2022. The drama, set in the Royal Baths Park, is directed by Leszek Zdun.

“November Night” is a work that Stanisław Wyspiański wrote after a short visit to the Royal Baths Park. The artworks found there, which their hint at antiquity, triggered the writer’s imagination to such an extent that he created a highly original work. Most of the drama (seven scenes out of ten) is set in the Royal Baths Park. There, the Officer Cadet School was located, where young military men, the initiators of the 1830 independence uprising described by Wyspiański, were educated”, notes the Royal Baths Park Museum.

On the 115th anniversary of the writer’s death, “November Night” will be staged as an open-air theatrical performance, set in the historic gardens. Wyspiański’s drama is firmly rooted in the landscape and autumn feeling. The interweaving of the ancient and divine world with the real and earthly surrounding is a great value of ‘November Night’, which is why the Łazienki gardens are the best and probably the only place where the work can resound to its full value”, emphasise the organisers of the event.

The concept of the staging is based on playing out the scenes of the drama in the places described by the author.  The audience will move through the gardens of the Royal Baths Park to observe successive scenes of the play. The show will use light and sound effects.

“November Night”, published in 1904, is Stanislaw Wyspianski’s third work, after “Warszawianka” and “Lelewel”, dealing with the November Uprising.

Adrian Andrzejewski