As I said on an earlier thread about this production (which I saw at the Young Vic, not at MTC), how does one write a play about two of the most inarticulate celebrities/artists in the world? If nothing else, the play is true to their inability to have a meaningful conversation, but that doesn't make for very engaging theater.
I wonder if the play might not have benefited from basing the other two characters on any of those NY types who were part of the Warhol circle back then to offer some insight and interact with Andy and Basquiat instead of a bland art dealer to the former and a fictional generic girlfriend to the latter. Christopher Makos, Bob Colacello, Kenny Scharf, Pat Hackett, et. al. |
