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Youve come to see two actors approximate personae, and here they are, approximating.
This is the kind of static bio-play that brings two famous figures to the stage and then stalls out.
Warhol is established but restive.
Basquiat, meanwhile, is the wary rising star.
His paintings are selling for more and more money, but hes suspicious of the Establishment.
By the second would you believe it?
they reach a sort of rapprochement.
Its a conventional, white-glove treatment of two characters who were anything but.
WithThe Collaboration, McCarten is continuing to mine a vein of middlebrow bio-drama.
(Did you know he didnt trust banks and kept tons of cash in his fridge?
Spoiler alert: Theres cash in that fridge.)
Its not a dialogue as much as its like watching two Pokemon communicate by endlessly restating their identities.
The Collaborationis at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
