Located in one of the four towers of the romantic castle surrounded by water about sixty kilometers from the Swedish capital, the court theatre was built by King Gustav III and was the seat of the French Theatre, a company active between 1781 and 1792 that staged performances both in the various royal residences and for the public in Stockholm and was the first Swedish Academy of Dramatic Art. The nobles were housed in the semicircular amphitheatre while the servants could follow the performances from the dome. The theatre is still equipped with sophisticated theatrical mechanisms and the painted scene is the original one of the last performance held here in 1785.Inspired by the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the court architect Erik Palmstedt.
