Please note: This performance takes place at Queens Mill, 1 Aire Street, Castleford WF10 1JL. Tickets are Pay What You Feel from the 3 options given.

A one-woman comedy drag show with audience participation, rap and pickled gherkins. Steeped in ‘ost-algia’ MONUMENT is a relatable story for the Western world freed from ideology. Right? Set at mysterious construction sites in Czechoslovakia and the UK, MONUMENT asks about the real cost and purpose of hard-work.

Two stories positioned side by side:

1950s, Czechoslovakia. A Government Apparatchik oversees the construction of the largest monument to Joseph Stalin, symbolising everlasting unity between the Soviet nations. Repressed by the Communist ideology, Apparatchik is determined to work his way to the top, where a possibility of personal freedom awaits.

2025, the UK. Bogdan, a Polish builder, aspiring rapper and an overall relatable everyman. He works hard, earns money and daydreams about a luxurious future. Caught in a work-sleep routine, Bogdan fills his loneliness with dating apps and doom scrolling on social media, interrupted by a barrage of news from the wider world. Bogdan is desperate for love and human connection but will he ever question the purpose of his hard work?

MONUMENT invites audiences to reflect on the role of our individual and collective power in shaping the world around us.

This performance does not contain an interval.