ABSTRACT
In an elevated part of the centre of Pyongyang myriads of workers were busy with an enormous building project for several years. By and by, shining façades with gigantic colourful mosaics could be seen, and a large number of groups of sculptures and aquatic installations behind a high fence of wrought iron. The Mansudae Theatre was meant to have been completed in time for the Communist Party’s thirtieth jubilee in 1975. But they did not manage that, and the theatre could not be opened until the beginning of 1977.
