Scenography for the remount of  junk ensemble‘s DOLORES at the Chocolate Factory, Dublin in November 2024.

DOLORES is a multi-room, site-specific promenade dance/theatre production, adapted from the original staging at the 2018 Dublin Dance Festival. Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s poetic and disturbing novel Lolita, DOLORES reveals three facets of the character: the neglected and traumatised orphan, the candy-fed girl filled with American hopes and dreams, and the Dolores who lived – a woman full of fire and retribution. Through darkly cinematic imagery, music, text and movement, DOLORES exposes the unsettling abuse and tragedy of a young girl. The acclaimed cast of performers and musicians lead the audience through intricately designed rooms visited in the novel: a 1950’s car, a girl’s cluttered bedroom, a cheap motel in mid-America, and a lonely highway road.

Production photographs by Pato Cassinoni, others by me.