The Tabor Theater of Oskar Nedbal will be closed for half a year due to reconstruction

Tábor – The Tábor Theatre of Oskar Nedbal will be largely closed from July until the end of the year. The reason is the reconstruction of stage technologies, which will cost 58 million crowns. During this time, the theatre will move a significant part of its program to other spaces in Tábor and the surrounding area. This was stated by its spokesperson Patrik Kučera.

"The repair of stage technologies is absolutely necessary. Moreover, it is a significant investment by the city in the field of culture after a long time," said Mayor Štěpán Pavlík (Tábor 2020).

The reconstruction will start on July 1 and will finish no earlier than November 30, more likely at the end of the calendar year. The new stage technologies will replace the original theatre technique from the 1960s. "Our dramaturgical possibilities will expand. We will be able to present performances that have higher demands on scenography," said the theatre director Linda Rybáková.

The Tábor Theatre is a complex that consists of the original pseudo-Renaissance theatre building from 1887 and an adjoining Empire house that was reconstructed in 1965. It has one stage with two attached auditoriums for 350 and 650 spectators - the common stage is positioned at a right angle. The older building belongs to the city, and the more modern one is owned by the South Bohemia Region. The theatre was made famous in the last century by the show "Maybe a Magician Will Come" with Oldřich Kaiser and Jiří Lábus, which was broadcast by the then Czechoslovak Television.

The city and the region will share the costs of the investments, with each covering 29 million crowns. Tábor approved this amount at a February city council meeting. "It is necessary for us to keep pace with the current theatre world in terms of technology," Rybáková said.

During the reconstruction, the theatre will prepare a program in a different form. Part of it will be performed, for example, in the cafe and foyer of the building. The dramaturgy will also move operations to the garden, to a club, gallery, and other surrounding venues such as the Beneš Villa in Sezimovo Ústí or the Ctibor Mill in Tábor.