REVIEW: Shakespeare Is Given A Contemporary Twist Where The Schoolyard Becomes A Kingdom IN Mike Lew's TEENAGE DICK broadwayworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadwayworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
High school tropes meet Shakespearean insults in this hilarious yet still devastating rendition of Richard III. From the name alone I was excited to see this production, and needless to say, I was not disappointed. Using lights and mirrors to invoke the intensity and contemplative darkness that is signature of many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, while also featuring phenomenal and moving acting from all members of the cast, it was definitely a treat to watch — it is a play “not to be fucketh with,” as the dialogue goes. One aspect I appreciated was an addition found towards the end of the show — an introspective monologue by Anne Margaret (played by Cassandra Consliglio) during one of the play’s final and darkest scenes that sheds light on how many of Shakespeare’s stories disregard the suffering and, in a sense, humanity of many of the female characters he creates. It’s not something that I’ve seen being done in any Shakespea
Mike Lew’s 2018 comedy Teenage Dick is a wildly irreverent reimagining of Shakespeare’s Richard III and Alberta Theatre Projects’ version, and it runs the…