Palmovka Theatre (), also known as the Theatre S. K. Neumann and the Urban and Regional Theatre, is a classic drama

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

located in the

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district of

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at the bottom of Zenklova street in Prague near the intersection and subway station

Palmovka Palmovka () is a Prague Metro station on Line B and also a neighborhood and a street in Libeň (Prague 8). The western metro entrance connects the station with the tram lines and trolleybus lines; the eastern one connects the station to a bus te ...

. In addition to the main stage it has the attic theatre, a small studio theatre for more intimate performances. Jste zde Databáze divadel

History

There has been a theatre on the site since 1865 but the current theatre company only dates to August 1949, when under the direction of the minister for Culture the current troupe took form. Until 1992 the Libeň theatre bore the name of the S. K. Neumann Theatre, but with the

fall of communism The revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. Th ...

the theatre took its current name.

References

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