The Ambassador Theater in Washington tonight premieres Summer at Nohant, a play by the Polish writer Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980) based on a real-life episode in the life of Fryderyk Chopin.

A comedy in three acts, written in 1936, it is set at the estate of George Sand in Nohant.

The play, in a translation by Celina Wieniewska, is directed by Hanna Bondarewska. 

 Further evening performances at Flashpoint, Mead Theatre Lab (916 G St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001) are on 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 March (7.30 pm) and matinees on 13, 14 and 21 March (2.00 pm). 

Chopin first met George Sand in the autumn of 1836. She was a famous French author of highly popular feminine novels. She was 34, six years Chopin’s senior, separated from her husband, with two children, 15 year-old Maurice and 10 year-old Solange. By the summer of 1838, they became lovers. Summer at Nohant focuses on their passionate and stormy relationship and the composer’s difficulties in establishing harmonious relations with George’s children. (mk)