Confidencen or The Court Theatre at Ulriksdal Palace
features the oldest original theatre interior in Sweden, designed 1753 by the
theatre architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. The building itself had originally
been constructed as riding stables in the 1670’s
It's rather hard to find but in beautifull surroudings.
Of course the most impressive here is again the changing of the sets using the baroque machinery.
Two sets were installed at the time we visited.
The wonderful part here is that the machinery and is completely new built, based on old plans an a lot of research:
There is no real understage: the stage is built on the floor of the hall, and the approx. 120 cm height of the stage is used to hide the machinery in.
Also on stage everything looks new and smells as fresh wood.
A strange experince when you're used to old, dusty theatres.
A special feature of the venue is the "confidensen room" where the king could have confidential talks.
In order to do that, it was possible to open a "stagetrap" in the floor, and rize a table that was pre set in the cellar.
That way, they were not disturbed by servant going in and out.
Apart from the dining table, it's also possible to raise 2 smaller side tables to presenr dessert on.
The nice thing is, everything is done with the same technology as used in the theater
Across the street is e very good restaurant called Ulriksdals Wärdshus.
Rather expensive, but beautiful surroundings.
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