OCH-Teatr, Modern theatre in Ochota district, Warsaw, Poland.
OCH-Teatr is a theatre in the Ochota district of Warsaw with two separate performance spaces. The main auditorium holds around 454 seats, while the smaller space fits about 100 people without assigned seating.
The building opened in 1949 as Cinema Ochota and served as a cinema for decades before being converted into a theatre in 2010. Its first theatrical season opened with a play by Maxim Gorki.
The name of the theatre comes directly from the Ochota district where it stands. The smaller stage tends to show plays that deal with current social questions, giving audiences a close encounter with topics from everyday life.
The theatre sits on Grójecka 65 and can be reached easily by public transport. It is worth checking the programme in advance, since the two spaces often run different types of shows at the same time.
When the building was converted from a cinema, much of the original sloped seating layout of the main hall was kept rather than rebuilt from scratch. This gives the large auditorium an acoustic quality that is noticeably different from a traditional theatre built for that purpose.
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