Monument at Voila! Europe Festival, Camden People's Theatre
Fri, 22 Nov
|London
A one-woman intermittent drag performance with audience participation using spoken word and comedy. A story of Bogdan - an Eastern European builder working on a mysterious construction site, juxtaposed with a real story of the world’s largest Stalin monument.
Time & Location
22 Nov 2024, 21:00 – 22:30
London, 58-60 Hampstead Rd, London NW1 2PY, UK
About the event
Bogdan is a relatable everyman and a hard worker involved in a mysterious construction project. Following a typical migrant path he’s focused on earning money and imagining the future ahead. So far it’s not looking great. Bogdan is desperately looking for real love and connection. Caught in a work-sleep routine, he fills his loneliness and lack of life purpose with dating apps and doom scrolling on social media, interrupted by a barrage of news from the wider world. Bogdan begins to question the aim of his hard work and wants to find out what he’s building. Bogdan’s life is juxtaposed with the tragi-comic true story of Otakar Švec - a sculptor behind the largest monument of Stalin in Czechoslovakia. Positioned side by side, two stories of Bogdan & Otakar create a dialogue between two individuals, two societies and two moments in history, which encourage audiences to think about…