A Thousand Miles of History
From: Monday, 4th March 2013
To: Saturday, 30 March 2013
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Synopsis
Set in the 1980's SAMO Is Dead appeared on buildings across lower Manhattan when teenage Jean-Michel Basquiat killed off his graffiti phenomenon and launched a fine art career. As Basquiat moved out of the streets and into the galleries of Soho, so did his new friend Keith Haring, having caught the art world's attention with his subway drawings. Together, they rapidly became international art superstars, and befriended the legendary Andy Warhol. The lives and work of all three artists became intertwined
Our Review:
13 March 2013
Eighties culture is a cliche to us now: big earrings, dodgy perms and Saved By The Bell repeats.
New play A Thousand Miles of History, written and directed by Harold Finley at the Bussey building in Peckham, takes us to New York and reintroduces us to a deeper, more vibrant idea of what the Eighties were like.
It opens boldly with art scene hanger-on Rene Ricard (a camp, dry Michael Palmer) taking us to the start of the decade, twenty years after Andy Warhol's Campbell soup tin heyday. Beginning life as inspired graffiti artists, the duo of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Michael Walters is stunningly good as impassioned drug-loving young artist) and Keith Haring (bespectacled, earnest Simon Ginty) break into the gallery world and we follow their trajectory from success and drug-fuelled parties to their fall out of the limelight.
It's a sometimes comic, sometimes bleak look at the paradox of the art world: however hard they try to avoid bei...
Cast
Michael Walters (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
Adam Riches (Andy Warhol) P:Joseph Mydell (Gerard Basquiat)
Lisa Caruccio Came (Mary Boone)
Michael Palmer
Miles Mitchell (Juan Dubose)
James Kermack. P:Emmanuel ImaniJames Kermack (Mr Universe). P:Emmanuel Imani
Creative
Harold Finley (Author)
Truly Fierce Productions (Producer)
Harold Finley (Director)
Mike Lees (Design)
David Turpin (Music)
Alice Jordan (movement) (Director)
Tommy Lexen (projection & film) (Design)
Jamie Flockton (Sound)
Anna Sbokou (Lighting)
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