In the 1960s, Andy Warhol drove a radical change in the paradigm of art, provoking debate about what was really important 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 show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images to icon, while climbing as a persona and artist to worldwide celebrity status.
Carolina Amaral, Diogo Fernandes
Francisco Monteiro, Helena Caldeira
João Gouveia, Lucas Dutra
Martim Martins, Miguel Amorim
Valdemar Brito
Gus Van Sant reconstructs the past of a Warhol at the beginning of his career, through a fictional narrative built on real facts and memories, but also on imagination. Actress Edie Sedgwick, who died prematurely, American writer Truman Capote and art critic Clement Greenberg are some of the characters played by teenagers and young actors who, in this decontextualization of age, test identities against the backdrop of the birth of Pop Art.
Gus Van Sant’s sensitivity, closeness and charisma revive in “Trouble” the belief in being together and forming a collective or a movement with the power to transform the world.
