“The Collaboration”

“The Collaboration” is a play written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The play originated on the West End at the The Young Vic in London. The play stars Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. The story, set in New York in 1984, centers around the collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and their new exhibition. 

 Arifa Akbar of The Guardian praised the performances writing, "Bettany and Pope do so much more than merely ventriloquising their celebrity parts. Bettany captures Warhol's tics – his gawkiness and gormless stares with a deadpan streak of cynicism...Pope gives us a seductive, childlike free spirit in his Basquiat”. 

 Prior to seeing the and “The Collaboration”, I watch the Andy Warhol Dairies on Netflix. All with definitely with it.