ABSTRACT
The Christiania Theatre was to continue to reject all of his plays until finally yielding to Folkeraadet in 1897. Gunnar Heiberg, already at work on Folkeraadet, took the incident as the basis for a satirical article entitled ‘His Majesty’ that he wrote for Verdens Gang.’ Early in 1897 he was appointed the newspaper’s Paris correspondent and once settled in the French capital, where he was joined by Oda Krohg, he turned again to Folkeraadet. Folkeraadet is in fact a racy satire on parliament and party politics. Many declared that the second act was among the funniest they had ever seen at the Christiania Theatre, and generally speaking Folkeraadet the play got far more applause then it did expressions of disapproval, the latter being reserved almost entirely for the music. The whole story of the first production of Folkeraadet is a succession of rises and falls.
