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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