Julie's Revenge

The play is not a re-staging, but rather a dissection, an interrogation, and a physical exploration. In a blend of lecture and performance, the work examines how ideologies not only exist in texts but are also inscribed on bodies: through upbringing, gaze, language, consumption, and social order.

Class theory explains power relations—but what explains why a female-socialized body feels shame, even when politically correct? The lecture constantly shifts between analytical clarity and physical exertion: archives are created, images disrupt, and videos overlay the space. The body is pressured, adapts, and loses its composure. Julie appears not as a role, but as a process—as a character born from theory, attributions, and violence.

At its core lies the question of how patriarchal class politics functions: How can an author be both class-critical and profoundly misogynistic? How is shame manufactured? And what happens when a body begins to resist its own shaping?

Over the course of the evening, Julie emancipates herself from her author. Not as a heroic liberation, but as a risky, contradictory act. Dance becomes resistance: against order, against categorization, against the predetermined ending. This lecture performance begins as a TED Talk and evolves into a performative act of resistance.