SNAKE-CHARMING ON HOT EVENINGS

About the event

Premiere: 13 February 2026 | small stage Based on the widely awarded, bravura and intensely erotic prose of Małgorzata Żarów, the play reveals spaces usually hidden — the digital ones where the body becomes a commodity, and the urban ones where loneliness grows particularly acute. Cast: Damian Kwiatkowski Maksymilian Piotrowski Helena Urbańska Małgorzata Witkowska Karol Wróblewski The protagonist, a woman working as a CamGirl, leads us through rented apartments, stairwells, streets and night transport stops. Along the way she meets Ramona — an amateur fortune-teller, Stefan — a porn actor, and Magda — a friend from earlier times. Creators: Director: Jan Jeliński Set design: Dorota Nawrot Choreography: Wojciech Grudziński Music: Rafał Ryterski Video: Agata Rucińska Intimacy coordination: Martyna Czarnecka Stage manager: Radosław Duda Assistant director: Filip Pardyak Assistant set designer: Zofia Mazurek Warsaw here becomes not a background but a full participant in the story — a city that can hide anonymity while at the same time painfully exposing it. This is a story about intimacy exposed to others' gazes, about the need to be noticed and the struggle for one's subjectivity. “Snake-Charming on Hot Evenings” is a tale in which desires and needs clash with expectations — brutal and real. The book by Małgorzata Żarów, published by CZARNE and serving as the basis for the play, received the Gdynia Literary Prize 2023 and was also nominated for the Warsaw City Literary Prize, the Conrad Award, the Nike Literary Award and the Premio Grand Continent. Post-premiere performances: 14.02.2026 15.02.2026 17.02.2026 13.03.2026 14.03.2026 15.03.2026 29.04.2026 30.04.2026 Tickets already on sale! https://teatrdramatyczny.pl/zaklinanie-wezy-w-gorace-wieczory Promotional photo: Paweł Bownik