Anthony McCarten’s play ‘The Collaboration’ imagines the mix of confrontation, competition, flirtation, and understanding that unfolds between Warhol and Basquiat when they once teamed up.
Anthony McCarten’s play imagines the mix of confrontation, competition, flirtation, care, and understanding that blooms between the two legendary artists when brought together to collaborate on a group of paintings made in the mid-1980’s, now worth many millions of dollars. At the time Warhol was already the superstar and iconic cultural changemaker that he is still known as today. Basquiat’s legend was in progress, red-hot and still coalescing.
The handsome Pope brings a crackling energy to Basquiat, darting this way and that in the studio where the works are created; the tall and slim Bettany is laconic in his trademark Warhol silver wig. Both men try to provoke the other—Basquiat by mocking Warhol as a hack who really should do some painting; while Warhol tries to pierce Basquiat’s cool by filming him, which Basquiat clearly loathes, at least initially.
But what do we end up knowing of Warhol and Basquiat that couldn’t be gleaned from Wikipedia or biographies at the end of this? Not much. Perhaps that is inevitable with the very famous and very written about, but when fiction tackles such totemic figures one hopes that dramatic license at least would open a new crack in understanding, or something more playful and mischievous in analyzing much-revered legends.
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