In the 1960s, Andy Warhol drove a radical shift in the art paradigm, sparking debate about what truly mattered in American society. Popular culture gained the status of art, transforming everyday objects into icons, such as the Campbell’s soup can.
Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first stage creation—a musical theater performance inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images to icon status, while simultaneously rising as a persona and artist to the level of global celebrity.
Carolina Amaral, Diogo Fernandes
Francisco Monteiro, Helena Caldeira
João Gouveia, Lucas Dutra
Martim Martins, Miguel Amorim
Valdemar Brito
Gus Van Sant reconstructs the early career of Warhol through a fictional narrative built from real facts and memories, but also imagination. Actress Edie Sedgwick, who died young, American writer Truman Capote, and art critic Clement Greenberg are some of the characters portrayed by teenage and young actors who, through this age decontextualization, explore identities against the backdrop of the birth of Pop Art.
The sensitivity, closeness, and charisma of Gus Van Sant revive in Trouble the belief that we are together and form a collective or a movement with the power to transform the world.
