Section two

Valerie three
Emma: It’s 1946, my parents have divorced and I’ve moved to Washington DC with my mother.
1949, my mum re-marries, I refuse to go to Catholic school so my grandfather whips me until I agree to go.
1951, I’m living on my own. I’m 15 and tired

(Ravo & Scott stand at microphones at the back, Dani speaks into a microphone at the table at the front, Lucy speaks from centre stage)

Lucy: It’s the Factory. It’s a factory. It’s an assembly line for silk screens. Someone is making a silkscreen. Someone is making film. Someone is making music. Someone is making love. It’s fluid, constant, it’s always new.
Ravo: It’s loud, It’s quiet, it’s free thinking
Scott: It’s Lou Reed, it’s the Velvet Underground
Dani: It’s Bob Dylan
Scott: It’s Mick Jagger
Dani: It’s taking a walk on the wild side
Scott: It mentions you

(Tori, Adam, Jess, Glen, Immy, Scott take it in turns to step up to mics at the back)

Tori: Holly Woodlawn
Adam: Candy Darling
Jess: Jakie Curtis
Glen: Joe Dallesandro
Immy: Joe Campbell

Scott: Aka Sugar Plum Fairy

Factory two

(Scott speaks the lines seriously into mic at back, Tori is centre stage – talking or singing, John is singing and play guitar side stage)

(Everybody – during this everyone has a space on stage an is slowly putting on lipstick)

Scott: Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says
Tori: Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
Hey honey
Take a walk on the wild side
John: Candy came from out on the Island
In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says
Tori: Hey babe, Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey baby
Take a walk on the wild side
John: And the coloured girls go
All: Doo do doo do doo do do doo..


Coroner report

(not sure what everyone is doing through this – Michael might have some ideas if he here you read it)
L/E/I: Andy Warhol
Lucy: Arrives by ambulance at the emergency room of Columbus Hospital
Emma: became well known in the New York underground film community for his minimalist films.

Immy: sent photographs to a commercial silkscreen shop to have the photographic images transferred to silkscreens
Emma: his
Immy: At the shop,
E & I: black and white
Emma: 16mm films
Immy: or high-contrast colour photographs

Emma: had a unique visual vocabulary

Immy: were projected onto sheer silk fabric stretched over a frame
Lucy: he arrives on a
L/I: Stretcher/stretched
Lucy: At 4.15 he is pronounce clinically dead
Emma: his early films were rarely edited
Immy: A light-sensitive emulsion hardened in the areas where it was exposed to light. The emulsion that was not exposed to light did not harden and was then rinsed off leaving clear fabric.
Lucy: The doctors cut open his chest and massage his heart.
Immy: Using a rubber blade the paint was pushed across the screen’s surface
Emma: ‘strobe cutting.’ His one editing trademark technique

Immy: The rubber blade forced the paint through the screen,
Lucy: the bullet went through his lung

Immy: but only in the unblocked areas. tiny dots of paint
Lucy: ricocheted through / Immy: squeeze through
Lucy: his oesophagus,
Immy: the woven threads
Emma: Chance
Immy: creating the printed image
Emma: Film
Lucy: gall bladder
Emma: Splice
Lucy: liver, spleen, and intestines before exiting his left side, leaving a large hole. He is dead for 1 1/2 minutes before they revive him. They operate for
Emma: His film Empire is
Lucy: five and a half
Emma: eight
L/E: hours
Emma: Long
Lucy: removing his spleen.
Emma: the filming itself took six hours
Lucy: He is in critical condition, but survives.
John: It hurt so much, I wished I was dead.

Factory three

(Everybody – during this is slowly putting on mascara. John is playing and singing, Immy is singing)

John: Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City's the place where they say,
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey Joe
Take a walk on the wild side

Immy: Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should've seen em go go go
They said, Hey shuga Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side



Valerie four

Emily: It’s 1952 and I am studying at the University of Maryland.
1953, I work as a prostitute to pay my way through my studies.
1956, I finally graduate
1960, I’m writing
1961, I’m writing
1962, I’m writing
My manifesto, my SCUM manifesto

(SCUM text here)