Poster: Jen Chia
Photo: Mollie Edsell
The Lolita Apologies by Talia Fossum-Wernick
premieres at The 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 1st-14th with
a preview at The NuBox Theatre in Manhattan July 15th and 16th.
Every woman deserves an apology. The Lolita Apologies is a one-act play, written and directed by Talia Fossum-Wernick, and starring Jackie McKenna and Alex Keane. The Lolita Apologies is a exploration of the enduring effects of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel*, and one woman's need for an apology. The play does not retell the story of Lolita—it interrogates its aftermath. Through a series of imagined conversations with the famous men who have interpreted Nabokov’s work, the production asks: who gets to tell the story, and at what cost?
*Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Vladamir Nabokov. It follows a man named Humbert Humbert, who kidnaps and abuses a 12 year old girl. This book has since been adapted into movies, plays, and short stories. These adaptations have rarely been written by women.
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