The Collaboration opens at the Young Vic in February and will be followed by a transfer of a Tony award-winning, re-orchestrated production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! directed by Daniel Fish that, Kwei-Armah said, “unlocks a fresh perspective on a great American musical”. The Slave Who Loved Caviar is at Theater for the New City in New York.
The relationship between the artists, and the question of whether each was exploiting the other’s fame, is also the subject of a new play by Ishmael Reed which opens in the US next month. The story would ask audiences “to lean in closely and challenge our preconceptions” he added. Kwei-Armah said the production, which will be designed by Anna Fleischle, “invites us behind the iconography and fame, and inside the intimate friendship between two artists”. The world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s drama The Collaboration will be staged by the Young Vic’s artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah, with Paul Bettany (Wandavision) playing Warhol and Jeremy Pope (One Night in Miami) as Basquiat. Now, the story behind the exhibition is being told in a new play at the Young Vic theatre in London. But the eagerly anticipated 1985 show of joint works by old master Andy Warhol and bright new star Jean-Michel Basquiat was thumped by critics when it opened in New York. It promised to be a knockout exhibition, with both artists wearing boxing gloves on the poster.
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