How a Theater Company Dramatized the Life of Andy Warhol for a Bold New Production Playing Out on the Streets of New York | Artnet News

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How a theater company dramatized the life of Andy Warhol for a bold new production playing out on the streets of New York:

But despite his undeniable fame, the Pop art great still remains something of an enigma, both inescapable and unknowable—an unnerving quality that inspires director Mara Lieberman’s new play,Blurring the lines between a walking tour and the theater,sets off from New York’s Astor Place Cube, with actors lying in wait with carefully positioned props.

She hopes the play appeals both to avid Warhol fans, as well as those with a more surface-level relationship to his work, who couldn’t tell you much about him other than the“The scenes are abstract, but I don’t like it when things are so obscure that nothing resonates. We leave a breadcrumb trail so you can enter this story and understand the complexities that contributed to who Andy was as a person,” Lieberman said.

Later, doctors in Marilyn Monroe masks perform life-saving surgery, Operation board-game style, to remove artworks from the artist’s bullet-ridden chest after Valerie Solanas shoots him in a near-fatal attack.

 

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