Revolving auditorium
Rotating open-air theatre in a castle garden, once turned by forty stagehands, now silent on electric motors.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Revolving auditorium in Český Krumlov Castle garden opens on June 9, 1958, when stage designer Joan Brehms and director Otto Haas turned a homemade rotating platform for the first time, seating sixty spectators for Günther Weisenborn's play Lost Face while the castle garden's trees became the set. It follows how the platform grew within a year to hold four hundred people, requiring forty stagehands to physically push it into position between scenes, sweating in the dark beneath the seats.
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