Studio Stage
The Studio Stage is located on the third floor of the National Theatre building at 3 Wierzbowa Street (the audience enters from Aleksander Fredro Street).
The building housing the Studio Stage and the Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage serves as the National Theatre's technical building. The building has a cubic capacity of 73,000 m³ and a usable area of 13,000 m². The building houses the aforementioned stages, as well as set storage, a furniture storage area, a prop store, a costume store, and technical workshops for set production: a carpentry workshop, a mechanical and metalworking workshop, an upholstery workshop, a modeling and painting workshop, as well as administrative offices and guest rooms for actors.
The stage, measuring 9 x 9 m and 7.5 m high, previously housed a recording studio. The stage area was expanded by adding a storage room adjacent to the recording studio, creating a substage area that provides additional space for actors. The horizontal wall connecting the stage and backstage features three doorways – one central door, 3 metres wide and 3 metres high, and two side doors, each 1 metre wide and 2.2 metres high.
The Studio Stage is a performance hall with separate areas for the stage and a permanent audience area. They create a single-level zone without the classical technological and architectural elements of a stage, such as a curtain and scenery drapes. The auditorium contains seven rows, providing a total of 84 seats. Rows of seats are on raked steps 34 cm higher than the one in front, giving viewers a very good view of the action on stage.
In the Studio Stage auditorium, a technical gallery is located in the ceiling space, encircling the entire hall, along with 10 linear lifts with a lifting capacity of 150 kg each, a maximum lifting height of 7.4 m, and a movement speed of 0.1 m/s. Stage lighting is mounted on the lifts.
A sound system and stage lighting system are also installed in the Studio Stage auditorium.
The Stage's sound system consists of a digital console, a set of wireless microphones, and full-range and sub-bass speakers, which create so-called surround sound.
The Stage's lighting system consists of conventional projectors and next-generation LED projectors. The projectors enable remote colour and light direction changes and are controlled from the lighting control panel.
Located at 3 Wierzbowa Street, the Theatre's technical building (which houses the Studio Stage and the Wierzbowa Stage) is located in the same building. The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Theatre is connected to the main Theatre building at 3 Teatralny Square by an underground tunnel running beneath Wierzbowa Street and this serves as a transport route for scenery. The Theatre buildings and the underground passage are protected by a modern fire detection and alarm system, which controls fire protection equipment, including a sprinkler system, a ventilation system, and smoke extraction systems. The system is monitored 24 hours a day by the Theatre Emergency Service, which provides fire protection at both the National Theatre and the Grand Theatre (the National Opera).
