26 CEOs.
One trashcan.
Public Plays are a new kind of business entertainment: born from a real topic and played by the room. At your conference, summit or company event, the audience is the show.
Played in public
Forbes TOP CEOs 2026 The Trashcan of Leadership
Played26 awarded CEOs each threw away one word they never want to see in leadership again. Physically, into a trashcan, accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic.
SeenEgo. Autopilot. Micromanagement. Arogance. Perfekcionismus.
Rudolfinum, Prague
Forbes TOP CEOs 2025 Masaryk of Tomorrow
PlayedThe room went looking for the leader of tomorrow, while the Czech Philharmonic played Dvořák's Largo.
SeenMasaryk chose three words: Resilience. Humor. Ambition.
Rudolfinum, Prague
Moonshot Platform Courage on Mars
Played100 global changemakers from all around the world explored what courage means.
A 16th century Bohemian castle
Builders Summit Resilience on Mars
PlayedTen people picked at random from the audience built the most resilient crew to fly to Mars, captained by resilience expert Jan Hanus.
Builders Summit
Family Business Summit Brand Play
PlayedPotten & Pannen and Lasvit, built live on stage out of people, to find each brand's greatest value and the reason customers buy it.
Family Business Summit
YPO The rocket of the future
PlayedThirty minutes to build a rocket of the future vision for a local YPO chapter.
YPO executive committee
Grand Hotel Pupp Seven plays on confidence
PlayedA special evening with Ondřej Novotný of OKTAGON. The confidence of the audience became seven plays on an improvised stage.
Grand Hotel Pupp, Karlovy Vary
Forbes Business Fest Don't give people more words
People @ Work stage
How it works
A play for your event
- 1
Your theme becomes a question
We take what your event is about and turn it into one question the room cares about.
- 2
We design the play
Made for your audience, your stage and your programme.
- 3
Your audience plays it
Live, on your stage. The room leaves with an answer it made itself.
On any stage, at any event in the world. Any theme that resonates with your brand, your audience and your community.
Who it is for
- Conferences and summits
- Client evenings
- Company gatherings
- Communities and platforms
Designed and led by
Milan Šemelák
Founding Playmaker of Stage on Mars and creator of The Stage on Mars Method, built on over a thousand plays.
He led the plays at Forbes TOP CEOs in Rudolfinum in 2025 and 2026.
Twenty years as creative director, strategy director and head of disruption. Hundreds of brands, from Starbucks and Google to O2.
What should
your audience play?
On any stage, at any event in the worldPrice on request