Big Brum Project Learning Resources

The Monuments Trilogy

Exploring who, how and why we remember

‘Socially Distant’ is a new monodrama from Big Brum that explores what happens when humans are deprived of real connection. It explores the story of a teacher in isolation working through the death of his son.

Part two of three of our new ‘Monuments Trilogy’, the concept links two new plays to Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Through each play in the trilogy, we’re exploring the themes found in Shakespeare’s classic text: repression, disconnection, isolation and civil dissonance.

The intention of the adults at the end of the trilogy to build a monument to remember the two pivotal young people with whom we’re so familiar. This is especially relevant in an era where we are questioning who, how and why we remember, for example the Black Lives Matter movement’s crumbling of statues and monuments in efforts to end the continued social and racial injustice across the world.