Castle Theater
Baroque court theater with original eighteenth-century rope-and-winch stage machinery still in working order.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Castle Theater in Český Krumlov centers on Lorenz Makh, a Viennese carpenter who spent 1765 and 1766 building rope-and-winch stage machinery for Prince Josef Adam of Schwarzenberg on a stage that had stood in the courtyard since the 1680s. You'll hear how the system works like a sailing ship's rigging, swapping painted scenery in seconds, and about the wings still stacked with eighteenth-century costumes and scenic flats painted by Hans Wetschel and Leo Markl. It raises the question of how such fragile machinery managed to survive so completely intact.
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