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The artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an enigma in many ways. He began his career as a commercial artist and fashion illustrator and morphed into several forms of groundbreaking pop/conceptual art that still remain his calling cards decades after his death: especially his Campbell’s soup cans, his screenprints of celebrities taken from photos. And he is as famous for being a celebrity himself, hanging out with celebrities and turning the offbeat characters he hung out with into celebrities as he is for his art.
So basing a fictional play on his persona makes sense: almost any scenario is believable with this multi-faceted and mysterious man. Brent Askari’s 1922 play Andy Warhol in Iran is based on a real visit Warhol made to the country in the 190s to do portraits of the Shah’s wife, but it starts to go off into the realm of fiction after that.
The play will be presented at the Beck Center’s Studio Theatre, directed by Sarah May, starting this week and running through Sunday November 2. The two-character play features Scott Esposito as Andy Warhol and Kareem Mchaourab as a student who takes him hostage. Go here for tickets.
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