On account of coronavirus and the instructions issued by the Public Health Agency of Sweden, Drottningholms Slottsteater has decided to reschedule this summer’s performances for next year and to cancel all public events until August. The Queen of Prints – maxjenny! exhibition will still be on display, and the Visions and Utopias day-programme will go ahead after the summer.
Autumn brings fashion to Drottningholms Slottsteater. Maxjenny Forslund is a Swedish designer who has been praised for her innovative fusion of art and fashion. Working together with Drottningholms Slottsteater, she has created The Queen of Prints – maxjenny! , an exhibition of printed motifs from the theatre’s scenery, environment and decor.
In May Drottningholms Slottsteater is staging a new production of the classic Beauty and the Beast, a comic opera inspired by the original work that premiered here in 1778.
“This is a fairytale that has been told countless times since the 1700s,” says script-writer and director Tuvalisa Rangström. “We now welcome younger audiences from the age of 6 and up to this magical historical theatre and