By Donal Gallagher, Medb Lambert and Marcus Bale - 2009
Red Lola
Red Riding Hood meets Lolita, via Southpark & Freud.
Once upon a twisted time, Lola left her grandma’s house and wandered off the path...
Lola’s not a little girl anymore.
Lola lives in a land where children are sexualised, schoolgirls fetishised and every male stranger a potential predator.
Performed entirely backwards, Red Lola is a surreal, darkly comic journey into the realm of the subconscious...
“Like Beckett crossed with children’s puppetry... riveting...
a powerful dramatic punch... bravura performances”
“A body-bending exploration of the world of sexuality...”
Red Lola was created over the course of one year by Medb Lambert, Marcus Bale and Donal Gallagher and was performed at the 2009 Cork Midsummer Festival, Kinsale Arts Festival and The Dublin Fringe Festival.