By Polly Stenham after Strindberg

Director: Amit Epstein

Video Design: Nick Dreyden

A new adaptation of Strindberg’s classic about the brutal love triangle between a wealthy daughter and the household’s employees. The iconic character of Julie returns to the stage in an updated version that preserves the original’s themes of class divisions and the war between men and women, reframed for the contemporary era.

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Visual & Multimedia Concept
Multimedia design by Nick Dreyden created a haunting visual metaphor for Julie’s inner captivity. A central recurring image was that of a bird in a cage, filmed through X-ray aesthetics, projected as a fragile, skeletal silhouette — a symbol of Julie’s fragility and entrapment.

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A system of live on-stage cameras captured the actors from shifting perspectives, turning moments of intimacy into hyper-exposed, fragmented close-ups. This real-time footage was fed into a network of projectors and seamlessly integrated with video mapping, transforming the stage space into an unstable, shifting architecture that mirrored Julie’s psychological unraveling.

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The combination of surveillance-like live feeds and morphing digital scenography blurred the boundaries between private and public, freedom and confinement — reinforcing the central conflict of Strindberg’s text in a visual language that resonates with contemporary audiences.

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Venue & Premiere
Habima National Theatre, Tel Aviv, 2024.