Švanda Theatre in Smíchov

Švanda Theatre in Smíchov (Czech: Švandovo divadlo na Smíchově) is a theatre in Smíchov a suburb of Prague.

[1] It continues the long tradition of the previous theatre based in this building and its surroundings.

[3] In 1900 the theatre was radically rebuilt when the position of the stage and auditorium was changed, and the layout has been preserved.

In 1928, during the beginning of the economic crisis was dissolved file [4] and in the building of the theatre was owned by several tenants.

[5] After the war, authorities banned its traditional theatrical business and there arose soviet version of the Realistic theatre, including a 1953 renaming the realistic theatre Zdeněk Nejedlý.