Tragedy in 9 Lives
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 13, 2003
Closed Aug 2, 2003
Opened Jul 13, 2003
Closed Aug 2, 2003
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Karen Houppert's new pop/rock music theater work -- set at Andy Warhol's Factory, circa 1968 -- re-creates the "happenings" of that era as audience members, including Warhol himself, find themselves voyeurs, eavesdropping on a cast of characters including The Chelsea Girls, militant feminist Valerie Solanas, and the new journalists who were seduced by the '60s scene. For 15 minutes, in Warhol's New York, art, feminism, politics and the press intersected in an exhilarating and dangerous way. Tragedy in 9 Lives taps the experimental vibe of the late 1960s, an unprecedented time when the borders between "high" and "pop" were fluid and the possibilities seemed endless.
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Someday, there will be a play or a movie or a book about Andy Warhol that will reveal something about the man that will move an audience to tears -- or, at least, bring us to a deeper understanding of the most enigmatic figure of 20th century art. The most recent stylish-but-empty attempt to find meaning in the Warhol experience is Karen Houppert's new play Tragedy in 9 Lives, a production of the Sightlines Theater Company. The tragedy is that audiences may accept this play's sizzle for substance.
In a purely theatrical sense, there is plenty of fat to fry in Houppert's recreation of the downtown art scene of 1967-68, when fractured feminist Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol's orbit and [...]