Dolly is a fearless wordless monologue, and a lippy challenging portrait of a woman, that avoids neither the pathetic nor the taboo. Everyday life and fantasy collide in picturesque dream sequences; suggestive collages of sound, sublime light design, fountains, plastic flowers and advanced body make up are important components in a performance asking questions about gender, oppression and solitude.

Dolly is an incomparable and magical mixture of high and low, concrete and abstract – extravagant kitsch and strait aesthetics in a bomb about to detonate.

Dolly opened at Göteborgs Dans och Teater Festival 2004 as a part of the festival’s Egyptian programme with Ahmed El Attar’s Mother, I want to be a Millionaire and Mahmoud Abou Doma’s Faust’s Dreams.

""The emphasis is somewhere else, in the light, the movement, the atmosphere, the objects. In a series of scenes, like tableaux in a surrealistic picture-play, the audience follows a woman in close contact with strong emotions and memories." Dolly has a depth, an almost von Trierian pretentious quality..."
Sven Rånlund, Göteborgs Posten 2004-08-25.

"The monologue is distinct though entirely without words.” “It’s exciting and very different."
Vibeke Carlander, Borås Tidning, 2004-08-30.