Der Lolita Komplex nach Vladimir Nabokov

In the organizer's words:

In Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel "Lolita", the literature professor Humbert Humbert looks back on his life: from an early age, he felt a sexual desire for girls in adolescence, for "nymphs" or "nymphets", as he used to call them. He eventually marries the middle-class widow Charlotte Haze, although he finds her repulsive, just so that he can be close to her twelve-year-old daughter Dolores (whom he always called Lolita).

"The Lolita Complex" is a theatrical monologue inspired by Nabokov's novel rather than a faithful adaptation of it for the stage. In a surreal setting, we observe the narrator character Humbert Humbert (HH), listen to his explanations and delve into the depths of his psyche. He develops various strategies to convince the audience of himself and his "innocence". Sometimes he analyses and psychopathologizes his behaviour, then he transfigures himself as a romantic who cannot forget his former childhood sweetheart Annabel Leigh, whom he never touched. Sometimes he simply portrays himself as a person suffering from his socially ostracized tendencies, who nevertheless never became an offender - until Dolores "Lolita" Haze entered his life. In addition to the surreal psychogram of the main character, "The Lolita Complex" is also an intellectual play with literature, language, mythology and psychology.

Play: Alexander Kupsch
Stage version: Julie Stearns, based on an idea by René Stockhausen
Stage, props: Gesa Gröning
Film: bs-films (Dirk Gerigk and Stefan Bahl)
Sound design: Alexander Kupsch
Assistance: Anke Stemberg
Concept and art direction: Julie Stearns
Director: Jens Dornheim
A production by Theater glassbooth in cooperation with only connect!