Lejonkulan

Lejonkulan (In English: The Lion's Den), was a historical theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, active in 1667–89.

Lejonkulan was a building down in and over the partly dry moat at the south corner of the royal palace Tre Kronor.

[3] Research has proven Lejonkulan to have been a very large building, and the painting by Govert Camphuysen from 1661 depicting it as small has been deemed not to have been proportionate.

[4] In 1667, Lejonkulan was redecorated and inaugurated as a theater by the Dutch theater company of Jan Baptista van Fornenbergh, who signed a contract to perform annually for the Swedish royal court the same year.

This troupe opened the Theater with the play Orontes en Satira by Magnon in February 1667.

Painting of the Tre kronor castle by Govert Camphuysen from 1661. The building Lejonkulan can be seen on this picture to the right outside the wall. However, the building has been proven to be much large than what this painting illustrates. [ 1 ]