'WARHOLCAPOTE' is a window into the relationship between two great, tortured minds

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Rob Roth's new play in book form, WARHOLCAPOTE, is what he calls a "non-fiction invention," created from found tapes of conversations between artist Andy Warhol and writer Truman Capote. In a conversation with Scott Simon, Roth sheds light on the two men's loneliness, their recognition of both talent and pain in each other, and how they turned the way they fathomed the world into art.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. It actually took some journalistic
0:07.0	elbow grease for theater director Rob Roth to get the materials he needed for his newest play.
0:12.9	What he was looking for were tapes of conversations between Andy Warhol and Truman Capote,
0:18.1	just shooting the breeze and having the kinds of deep conversations you'd
0:22.1	think they'd have. He turned those tapes into his latest work, Warhol Capote, and while sure,
0:27.9	it's a play about these two guys, it seems to also be a play about loneliness and ambition and drive
0:34.7	and appreciating your buddies. Roth talked to NPR Scott Simon about it and said that the two of them saw in each other
0:40.9	not only talent, but mutual pain.
0:44.8	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
0:49.6	Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.
0:56.1	On our new show, Sources and Methods.
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1:13.0	Andy Warhol and Truman Capote once told each other, hey, let's write a play.
1:15.0	It was 1978.
1:29.1	Andy Warhol, who put the pop of popular into pop art and Truman Capote, who had written popular books about a southern girl who becomes New York's Holly Golightly and breakfast at Tiffany's and the true story of the murder of a Kansas farm family in in cold blood recorded conversations over a few months
1:35.6	like this one.
1:36.9	So we should work on our show.
1:38.9	Oh, yeah.
1:40.9	I think it should be a situation in comedy.
1:43.8	No, I know exactly what you should be in. I want you to be a situation comedy. No, I know exactly what it should be.
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