Teenage Dick
By: Mike Lew
Publisher: Nick Hern Books; Hern Books, Limited, Nick
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781788502993; 9781848428720
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: People with disabilities; Drama; Teenagers; High school students; Bullying in schools; Revenge
Description: A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his discontent. Picked on because of his disability (as well as his sometimes creepily Shakespearean way of speaking), Richard is determined to have his revenge and make his name by becoming president of the senior class. But like all teenagers, and all despots, he is faced with the hardest question of all: is it better to be loved, or feared? Mike Lew's play Teenage Dick was commissioned and developed by The Apothetae, a company dedicated to plays that explore and illuminate the 'Disabled Experience'. It was first performed by Ma-Yi Theater Company at the Public Theater, New York, in 2018, and received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in December 2019, directed by Artistic Director Michael Longhurst.--
Notes: Mike Lew is a Chinese-American playwright whose plays include Teenage Dick, Tiger Style!, Bike America, microcrisis, Moustache Guys, and the book to the musical Bhangin' It. He is co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the US.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Original Production; title: Characters; title: Note; title: Teenage Dick; title: Alternate Lines; title: About the Author; title: Copyright and Performing Rights Information.