Vinohrady Theatre
Theatre in Prague, Czechia
50°04′35″N 14°26′14″E / 50.07639°N 14.43722°E / 50.07639; 14.43722Vinohrady Theatre (Czech: Divadlo na Vinohradech) is a theatre in Vinohrady, Prague.
Construction began on February 27, 1905. It served as the Theatre of the Czechoslovak Army from autumn 1950 to January 1966. It contains a curtain painted by Vladimír Županský depicting a naked muse.[1]
Playwrights associated with the theatre include Viktor Dyk who was active around 1915.[2]
During the Velvet Revolution, where the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was overthrown, there was a rally outside the theatre on the night of November 19–20; actress Vlasta Chramostová was quoted as asking the crowd: "If not now, when? If not us, then who?"[3]
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