The Royal Theatre is located in the heart of Hobart. Here you can see the musical and dramatic performances, opera and ballet. It is also the oldest operating theater in Australia, housed in a building dating back to 1834 - the 37th years. Several times he wanted to demolish, but these plans were never implemented. In the 1940s he acted here Laurence Olivier, the great English actor who urged residents not to let Tasmania destroy this temple of art. In 1950, actress Gwen Frend and Fifi Banvard hear about the latest plans for the demolition of the Royal Theatre. They canceled their overseas tour, which had to go through a couple of days and arrived at Hobart, where they took the theater building for rent. Gwen gave 28 thousand pounds for the restoration of the building and founded a production company, which over the next year and a half produced a variety of shows. However, after the end of the lease, the building fell into disrepair again.

Irreparable damage to the building caused a major fire in 1984, which damaged the interiors and paintings on the ceiling. A few years and one million dollars spent on it to restore the lost decorations and works of art. But the administration of the theater right, and today he again takes the visitor.

The famous "inhabitants" of the theater is a ghost named Fred - say, once the building was killed by an actor, and his spirit still wanders somewhere behind the scenes.