Göteborgs Stadsteater
Columned granite playhouse from the 1930s with a vast revolving stage built by shipyard craftsmen.
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This guide to Göteborgs Stadsteater in Gothenburg starts on an autumn evening in nineteen thirty-four, when the new city theatre on Götaplatsen chose the play it would open with. It follows the superstition and ceremony that surround a theatre's first night, and the shipyard craftsmen whose machinery still sits behind the columned facade. Best heard standing on the square, facing the front of the building.
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