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MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On

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The Court Theatre of Buddha

Budapest's Court Theatre was once a Carmelite monastery. Joseph II had it dissolved three years prior and commissioned Kempline to convert it into the city's first theatre. The cells had now been taken for the actors' dressing, and the crypt remade into a traproom beneath the stage. Everywhere I turned there seemed to be more ticking, whirring figures of clockwork, wood and metal.

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