PLAYHOUSE - COPENHAGEN

The magic which unfolds in the relationship between actor and audience is one of the most important pillars of culture, and precisely this magic must be reflected in the architecture of the theater. In contrast to architecture in ‘boxes’ which hide and mystify their contents in an anonymous form, it is important that the theaters’s architecture express the expectations for the coming experience. The building may hint at – but not reveal – the magic of the theatre. The architecture and therefore the building must promote the theatre space in the urban space and attract the theater’s audience.

All of the theater’s functions are collected under a large, vaulted roof, and from the arrival via Sankt Annæ Plads the public is received by the “floating” foyer space which is distributed in several levels around the large stage. The space connects the other stages together and faces the harbour space.

“ALL what we see or seem - Is but a dream within a dream .”
Edgar Allan Poe