Admission
25/20/15/10 €, buy ticket
Venue
Sophiensæle, Festsaal
Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin
Language
Spoken Portuguese with German and English surtitles
With interpretation into German Sign Language
Jéssica Teixeira, MONGA © Patricia Almeida
Admission
25/20/15/10 €, buy ticket
Venue
Sophiensæle, Festsaal
Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin
Language
Spoken Portuguese with German and English surtitles
With interpretation into German Sign Language
With her award-winning work MONGA, Brazilian director and performer Jéssica Teixeira embarks on her first European tour, including two performances at Sophiensæle.
In MONGA, Teixeira continues her investigation into the politics of the body on stage. Drawing on personal and historical references—such as Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century Mexican woman exploited in freak shows, and the “werewolf-woman” acts popular in 1980s Brazilian circuses—Teixeira weaves a powerful solo that confronts the audience’s gaze with rawness, vulnerability, and defiance. MONGA is not a re-enactment of circus acts or documentary theatre; rather, it is an attempt to reclaim the image and reimagine it through one’s own body—a poetic reckoning with the spectacle of difference and the violence of being seen as “other.”
Jéssica Teixeira is a multi-artist living in Fortaleza, Brazil. Her artistic practice is strongly characterized by her engagement with her own body, which she uses as an instrument for critical reflection and a means of political resistance. In 2025, Jéssica Teixeira was awarded the most prestigious Brazilian theater prize in the category Best Director for her work MONGA.