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UP YOUR ASS Why I Shot Andy Warhol and other chit-chat

UP YOUR ASS

Archive
Location Kortrijk - Antigone
Duration 90min

In English - with Dutch subtitles

This is a co-creation by Antigone and Schouwburg Kortrijk

NL

Why I shot Andy Warhol and other chit-chat
Russel: “The two-sex system must be right, because it has been there for ages” 
Bongi: “So has disease”

Nona Demey Gallagher & Lieselot Siddiki adapt Up Your Ass, Valerie Solanas' infamous 1965 comedy. The text has had a controversial status in the feminist (queer) community for years, but is now seeing the European theatre light for the first time.

New York, the Sixties. Main character Bongi Perez – a substitute for Solanas herself – is a crude hustler and sex worker. She hangs out on the streets with quite a few eccentric characters, where she fills her days with vulgar discourses, clapping and wooing female passers-by. When she meets Ginger and Russel – a daddy's girl and a male narcissist – a chain of absurd (anti-)intellectual discussions about the state of society immediately ensues. Bongi, Ginger and Russel shamelessly spit their beliefs at each other – resulting in unthinkable and grotesque situations.

Valerie Solanas is best known today for her attack on Andy Warhol, but her literary legacy includes important radical-feminist works, such as SCUM Manifesto and Up Your Ass. After Andy Warhol refused to produce Up Your Ass, Solanas tried to shoot him. Nona and Lieselot got in close contact with Solanas' last living relative and were the first and only ones to get permission to perform Up Your Ass. 

Performers Sophia Bauer, Bavo Buys, Lucie Plasschaert and Lucas Van Der Vegt fulminate Solanas' words from the 1960s to a rhythm that, at times, is quite similar to today's.
 

Credits

  1. Production of Nona Demey Gallagher en Lieselot Siddiki
  2. From Nona Demey Gallagher en Lieselot Siddiki
  3. With Sophia Bauer, Bavo Buys, Lucie Plasschaert, Lucas Van Der Vegt
  4. Scenography Eva Demulder
  5. Technical support Kato Stevens, Margy Regniers
  6. Music Bart Demey, Tania Gallagher (Nid & Sancy)
  7. Production detheatermaker, Campo, Kunstenwerkplaats vzw, De Grote Post, C-mine, Gouvernement, Sabam for culture
  8. Special thanks to Karen L Biondo, Jarne Van Loon, Rodrigo Baptista, Nelleke Janssen

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