OCHLOS

A festive choral performance suitable for celebrating any anniversary of democracy.

The theater will see a clash between the angry mob of Ochlos, who are striving for power, and two educated and cultured representatives of Demos. The audience versus Halka Třešňáková and Arseniy Mikhaylov, who will explain in a performative lecture the fundamental values that they believe are under threat and which they are trying to save. In a fictional documentary style, they will share the sum of their human, creative, and historical experiences accumulated over the last thirty years of traveling around Europe.

The performance will feature many sentences that have already been said somewhere, stories that have already been told, thoughts and ideas that you have probably heard before and may still remember.

From this perspective, they will paint a vivid portrait of Europe over the last thirty years—a world that, engulfed by Ochlot, is slowly receding into the irretrievable past.

Concept, scenography, directing: Jan Mocek
Created with, performed by: Halka Třešňíková Arseniy Mikhaylov
Music: Matouš Hekela
Lighting, sound: Ondřej Růžička
Production: Táňa Švehlová, SixHouses z.s.
Artistic advice: Sodja Lotker
Photos: Adéla Vosičková
Premiere: 24. 11. 2025, Alfred ve dvoře, Prague

Jan Mocek
Jan Mocek is a theatre maker based in Prague. In his work he mixes elements of pop culture, politics, and personal experience to speak about the times we are living in. In other words, he sees the gold where everyone else smells shit. His main concern in theatre work is to open up difficult themes with all their ambiguities, while offering pure distilled doses of beauty. Mocek’s work has been presented at national and international festivals and venues, among them Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Komuna Warszawa, Toplocentrala, Fast Forward Dresden, Rehearsal for Truth NYC, Submerge Digital Arts festival Bristol, and 4+4 Days in Motion Prague. Jan Mocek is a member of IN-SITU - European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public
Space.

SixHouses is a production platform directed by Tana Svehlova, it provides complex production support for Jan Mocek´s projects.
www. janmocek.org