The Collaboration Freesheet
Boxers are like painters, both smear their blood on the canvas. New York, 1984. Fifty-six-year-old Andy Warhol’s star is falling. Jean-Michel Basquiat is the new wonder-kid taking the art world by storm. When Basquiat agrees to collaborate with Warhol on a new exhibition, it soon becomes the talk of the city. As everyone awaits the ‘greatest exhibition in the history of modern art', the two artists embark on a shared journey, both artistic and deeply personal, that re-draws both their worlds. Paul Bettany (The Avengers, Wandavision) is the iconic Warhol and Jeremy Pope (Hollywood, Choir Boy, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations) plays the magnetic Basquiat in the world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s thrilling new drama, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. Show warnings This show contains themes of racism, mental illness, death, and grief. There are references to drugs and guns, as well as use of strong language and racist language. Live Streamed Performances As announced, a feature film adaptation of Anthony McCarten’s play is underway, which means that we will not be offering live broadcast performances of The Collaboration. We look forward to keeping our audiences updated on the future life of this story, as we are passionate about ensuring it is accessible to the widest possible audience. Art direction by Émilie Chen. Photography by Jenny Anderson.
Boxers are like painters, both smear their blood on the canvas.
New York, 1984. Fifty-six-year-old Andy Warhol’s star is falling. Jean-Michel Basquiat is the new wonder-kid taking the art world by storm. When Basquiat agrees to collaborate with Warhol on a new exhibition, it soon becomes the talk of the city.
As everyone awaits the ‘greatest exhibition in the history of modern art', the two artists embark on a shared journey, both artistic and deeply personal, that re-draws both their worlds.
Paul Bettany (The Avengers, Wandavision) is the iconic Warhol and Jeremy Pope (Hollywood, Choir Boy, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations) plays the magnetic Basquiat in the world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s thrilling new drama, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Show warnings
This show contains themes of racism, mental illness, death, and grief. There are references to drugs and guns, as well as use of strong language and racist language.
Live Streamed Performances
As announced, a feature film adaptation of Anthony McCarten’s play is underway, which means that we will not be offering live broadcast performances of The Collaboration. We look forward to keeping our audiences updated on the future life of this story, as we are passionate about ensuring it is accessible to the widest possible audience.
Art direction by Émilie Chen. Photography by Jenny Anderson.
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COMING UP...<br />
FEB – APR<br />
26 APR – 25 JUN 2022<br />
This is Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it<br />
before, re-orchestrated and reimagined<br />
for the 21st century. Winner of the Tony<br />
Award for Best Revival of a Musical,<br />
Daniel Fish’s bold interpretation transfers<br />
to the Young Vic, direct from an acclaimed<br />
run on Broadway and an American tour.<br />
Oklahoma! tells a story of a community<br />
banding together against an outsider,<br />
and the frontier life that shaped America.<br />
Seventy-five years after Rodgers and<br />
Hammerstein reinvented the American<br />
musical, this visionary production is<br />
funny and sexy, provocative and probing,<br />
without changing a word of the text.<br />
YOUNGVIC.ORG #YoungVic #YV<strong>The</strong><strong>Collaboration</strong>
THE COLLABORATION<br />
BY ANTHONY McCARTEN<br />
Writer<br />
Anthony McCarten<br />
Director<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah<br />
Set and Costume Designer<br />
Anna Fleischle<br />
Lighting Designer<br />
Mark Henderson<br />
Sound Designer<br />
Emma Laxton<br />
Video Projection<br />
Duncan McLean<br />
Composer<br />
Ayanna Witter-Johnson<br />
Casting Director<br />
Isabella Odoffin CDG<br />
DJ/VJ<br />
Xana<br />
Assistant Director and<br />
Production Dramaturg<br />
Olivia Nwabali<br />
Associate Designer<br />
Tina Torbey<br />
Production Manager<br />
Ian Smith<br />
CSM<br />
Alison Rankin<br />
CAST<br />
Andy Warhol Paul Bettany<br />
Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeremy Pope<br />
Bruno Bischofberger Alec Newman<br />
DSM<br />
Mary O’Hanlon<br />
ASM<br />
Becca Mitchell<br />
Props Supervisor<br />
Ryan O’Conner<br />
Lighting Programmer<br />
Faye Hetherington<br />
Lighting Operator<br />
Saul Richardson<br />
Production Sound<br />
Engineer<br />
Kyle MacPherson<br />
Sound Operator<br />
Franziska Lagemann<br />
Automation Programmer<br />
Tom Salmon<br />
Automation Operator<br />
Amber Reece-<br />
Greenhalgh<br />
Stage crew<br />
Liam Dunne<br />
Production Video<br />
Engineer<br />
Jake Stebbings<br />
Video Programmer<br />
Lauren Kunicki<br />
Video Technician<br />
Jacob Doyle<br />
Maya Sofia Barclay<br />
Radio and Video<br />
Technician<br />
Dylan Marsh<br />
Animators<br />
Stanley Orwin-Fraser<br />
& Bradley Purnell<br />
Costume Supervisor<br />
Olivia Ward<br />
Wigs, Hair and<br />
Make Up Supervisor<br />
Sarah-Jane Pucci<br />
Wardrobe Manager<br />
Shereen Maungoo<br />
Wigs, Hair and<br />
Make Up Manager<br />
Emily Mortimore<br />
Costume Alterations<br />
Ysanne Tidd<br />
Costume Portrait Artist<br />
Emily Marsh<br />
Design Placement<br />
Jida Akil<br />
Leather Worker<br />
Spike<br />
Production Carpenters<br />
Harvey Barker<br />
Set built by<br />
Bower Wood<br />
Production Services<br />
Scenic art by<br />
Richard Nutbourne<br />
Lighting Equipment<br />
supplied by<br />
White Light<br />
Sound Equipment<br />
supplied by<br />
Creative Technology<br />
Video Equipment<br />
supplied by<br />
Oliver Luff at<br />
Universal Pixels<br />
Communications<br />
Equipment supplied by<br />
Creative Technology<br />
Make Up supplied by<br />
Weleda and<br />
Dr Paw Paw<br />
Costume Accessories<br />
supplied by<br />
Cutler & Gross<br />
Warhol’s wig made by<br />
Carol Robinson<br />
and cut by<br />
Veronica McAleer<br />
Basquiat’s wig made by<br />
Charles LaPointe<br />
and Associates<br />
ANTHONY McCARTEN<br />
WRITER<br />
Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born<br />
playwright, novelist, journalist, television writer<br />
and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the<br />
biopics <strong>The</strong> <strong>The</strong>ory of Everything (2014), Darkest<br />
Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Two Popes (2019). A double BAFTA winning<br />
screenwriter, he has been nominated four times<br />
for Academy Awards, among them nominations<br />
for Best Adapted Screenplay for <strong>The</strong> <strong>The</strong>ory of<br />
Everything and <strong>The</strong> Two Popes. He is the author<br />
of ten previous plays and writer of the book for<br />
the upcoming Neil Diamond Broadway musical,<br />
A Beautiful Noise (2022).<br />
Public Support<br />
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is the Artistic Director<br />
of the Young Vic theatre. He was Artistic Director<br />
of Baltimore Centerstage (2011-18) and Artistic<br />
Director of the Festival of Black Arts and Culture,<br />
Senegal (2010), where he wrote and directed<br />
the opening ceremony at Senghor stadium.<br />
As a playwright, Kwame was the first African<br />
Caribbean to have a play produced in London’s<br />
West End (Elmina’s Kitchen). His triptych of plays<br />
was produced at the National <strong>The</strong>atre, where he<br />
later created the online resource <strong>The</strong> Black Play<br />
Archive. Kwame was Chancellor of the University<br />
of the Arts, London (2010-2015), is Patron of<br />
Ballet Black, and <strong>The</strong> Black Cultural Archives,<br />
Chair of Warwick Arts Centre Advisory Board and<br />
Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.<br />
Kwame was awarded an OBE for Services to<br />
Drama in 2011, and in 2020 listed as one of 100<br />
Great Black Britons.<br />
Textual excerpts and adaptations of excerpts from the words of Andy Warhol used with permission of<br />
<strong>The</strong> Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.<br />
Jida Akil is part of the Jerwood Assistant Director and Designer Program supported by Jerwood Arts.<br />
Special thanks to Rupert Goold and the Almeida <strong>The</strong>atre for their early support of this play, and to<br />
Maja Hoffmann for opening up her home for rehearsals in New York.<br />
Special thanks to: Despina Tsatsas, <strong>The</strong> Andy Warhol Foundation, Basquiat Estate, James Latus,<br />
Jeffrey Posternak, Eva Maiwald, <strong>The</strong> Andrew Wylie Agency, Rob Donnelly-Jackson, RADA, Sheridans<br />
Cover image: Art direction by Emilie Chen. Photography by Jenny Anderson.<br />
Produced in partnership with Eleanor Lloyd, Anthology <strong>The</strong>atre, Stanley Buchthal and<br />
Eilene Davidson in association with Denis O’Sullivan<br />
Season Support<br />
<strong>The</strong> Young Vic’s 2022 season is also supported by the Genesis Foundation and IHS Markit.<br />
We gratefully acknowledge Ian Burford and Alec Cannell for generously supporting the Young Vic’s mission.
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