 In the 1720s and 1730s, the interest for amateur theater was great in Stockholm and a lot of temporary amateur troupes performed among the aristocracy, the most known one ""Count De la Gardies comedients"", made by noble youths.After the amateur-performance "Tobias" by a couple of idealistic students at the birthday of king Frederick I of Sweden in 1737, during a period when the building was empty after the last foreign troupe had left, the opinion wanted a theater in their own language.This was granted by the Riksdag, who encouraged the establishment of the first native troupe of actors.