Full cast and creative team announced for THE COLLABORATION at the Young Vic

The Young Vic have announced full casting and the creative team for The Collaboration, the world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s thrilling new drama, running from 16 February-2 April.

Multi award-winning actor Paul Bettany (The Avengers, WandaVision) will play the the iconic Warhol, alongside two-time Tony Award nominee Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations) as the magnetic Basquiat, with the complete cast also including Sofia Barclay and Alec Newman.

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.

The Collaboration is written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, with set and costumes by Anna Fleischle, lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Emma Laxton, projection by Duncan McLean, and composition by Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

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