OCH-TEATR

8.06.2004 - foundation of Krystyna Janda Foundation for Culture. Krystyna Janda Foundation for Culture is a family foundation. Founders and founders are Krystyna Janda - actress, Edward Kłosiński - film operator and Maria Seweryn - actress. In private life - family. The main statutory purpose of the Foundation is to support and promote culture, in particular by running theaters. Further assistance to people in access to culture and theater, care of the "excluded", cooperation with children's homes, Warsaw hospitals, nursing homes, nursing homes, Third Age Universities, retirement homes, etc., as well as charity and promotion of young artists .

October 29, 2005 - opening of the Polonia Theater

Polonia Theater was created in the former Polonia Cinema. It was the first cinema opened in postwar Warsaw. There were movies like "Treasure" and "Forbidden Songs". In the early years of the 21st century the cinema building was unused and practically fell into ruin. In the autumn of 2004, the MAX-FILM company set up a cinema hall (the halls and the entrance are still owned by the City of Warsaw) for sale in the form of a tender. On January 21, 2005, Krystyna Janda and Edward Klosinski bought a room for the former cinema, and in November 2005 they donated it notary in the use of the Foundation. They also hired other space: the lobby and entrance, without which the room could not function and began repair.

In October 2005, the Little Theater of Polish Theater - "Violet Stockings" began to function. The name has been borrowed since the nineteenth-century feminist movement in France. The scene was named as a consequence of the artistic assumptions of the new Theater: it was supposed to deal mainly with women and related topics, to deal with women's and women's texts.

On 29.10.2005 the first premiere of Polonia Theater - "Stefania Ćwiek in the claws of life" by Dubrawka Ugrešić took place, and the second one - "Ear of the throat, knife" - a monodrama performed by Krystyna Janda according to the book Vedrana. Rudan under the same title. At that time, the big stage of the theater was undergoing renovation.

On December 3, 2006 the premiere of "Three Sisters" by A. Chekhov was inaugurated. The second premiere was Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" (January 12, 2007). The first years of the Polonia Theater's success are both artistic and casual. By the end of 2007, the theater gave 20 premieres, almost half of them still in the repertoire.

In 2007, the idea of ​​playing in the summer, in the holiday months, for people, on the street, for free. And so, on June 21, 2007, the first performance on Constitution Square was held: Krzysztof Bizio's "Lament on Constitution Square" and it was played 37 times. In the following years, new productions were launched for this street theater, urban theater and until today every year there are performances in the outdoors. Recently and at the Constitution Square, and on Grójecka Street 65 in front of the Och-Teatr. The number of shows depends on the amount of money the Foundation can achieve for this purpose, but it is from 40 to 70 performances, gathering about 10-15 thousand spectators each year.

On January 5, 2008, Edward Kłosiński died, who has built and furnished the theater to the end, participated in artistic works, among other things, lighting for many shows and co-managed the Foundation. After His death, Krystyna Janda and Maria Seweryn sit on the Foundation's board. Partially the Council of the Foundation has also changed.

The success, the growing repertoire and the growing number of spectators, as well as the small number of seats in the audience (Teatr Polonia with 266 seats) made the Foundation in 2009 lease the building of the former Ochota cinema MAX-FILM and began repairing the neglected cinema.

On January 16, 2010, the Och-Theater opened with 447 seats in the audience. The scene began "life" premiere of "Wassy Żeleznowej" Gorki. From then on the theater began to play regularly, taking over part of the repertoire from the Polonia Theater and creating their own, turning this scene also to the music scene.