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Up Your Ass is a satirical play written by Valerie Solanas in 1965. The full title of the play is Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime.

History
The play is dated from 1965 by most sources, although some date it from 1966. It was written about the same time that Solanas was working on her SCUM Manifesto, while Solanas was living in New York City. In early 1967, Solanas approached Andy Warhol, hoping that he would produce the play. Warhol told a journalist at the time the play "was so dirty that I think she must have been a lady cop" trying to entrap him based on earlier police incidents relating to his films. In May 1967, Solanas was told that Warhol has lost the manuscript.

On June 3, 1968, Solanas shot Warhol, art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Fred Hughes, Warhol's manager. Warhol's failure to produce Up Your Ass was cited by newspaper reports as one of the reasons for this attack, but Solanas denied this in court appearances.