Femme Fatale

Fame, failure and feminism

Wiseman’s darkly comic drama about a fictional meeting between Nico, singer with The Velvet Underground and Valerie Solanas, Warhol’s would-be assassin, was staged at the Omnibus Theatre, London in 2019, funded by Arts Council England.The Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1968. Nico, singer with The Velvet Underground, is waiting to shoot Andy Warhol's latest movie and for her lover, Jim Morrison, when her room is invaded by Valerie Solanas, radical feminist and would-be Warhol assassin. A duel to the death begins… 100 years since women got the vote, and 30 years since Valerie and Nico died, Wiseman reimagines two female pop culture icons at the epicentre of 60s cool battling for control of their own destinies.