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From the Jury report:

“The overwhelming stage adaptation that writer Annet Bremen and director Silke van Kamp made of Nabokov's Lolita is about the power of whoever gets to speak.”

How does a young woman discover her sexuality? And who gets to tell that story? Director Silke van Kamp is fascinated by Nabokov’s scandalous 1955 novel Lolita, in which a young woman’s journey of sexual fantasies and longing is taken away from her.

For decades, Lolita has been portrayed as a romanticised object of desire, with countless versions of her story. After 70 years, Silke radically turns Nabokov’s literary classic inside out and in F*CK LOLITA reshapes the story from the female perspective. Lolita steps out of the cage of desire object and reclaims her story and body. Not as a victim of abuse, but as someone who fights free from the grip of the male gaze.

With a text by Annet Bremen, nominated for the Toneelschrijfprijs 2023, based on an idea by Silke van Kamp, F*CK LOLITA creates a capricious, sensuous and complex duet between Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Lolita reclaims her artwork: about herself, as herself.