King Size is based on Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, which postulates masculinity as a gender performance, and on the historical legacies of drag or cross-dressing representations in Western and Eastern performing arts.
This work seeks to confront the creative and dramaturgical mechanisms of contemporary drag performances with the rigid codes of gender representation in traditional dance and theater, highlighting the differences between what is natural and what is a cultural or scenic construct.
Drag subverts gender roles by emphasizing the theatrical aspects of these interpretations, but it is also a form of social critique and artistic expression. Drag king/queer shows — and what might be called spectacular masculinity — invite us to revisit the staging of masculinity and question: what is the performance of gender?
Through its research and conception, King Size aims to analyze how masculinity is constructed, reinterpreting the relationships between nature, gender, and sex. By focusing on figures embodying masculine myths — such as prophets— and their parodic revisions, this creation seeks to stage a game of disidentification that resists the pressures of sexual binarism in both society and art.