Mike Lew's latest takes inspiration from Shakespeare's history play to explore how a character gets to play the villain without apology.
The most daring move in “Teenage Dick,” a riff on “Richard III” set in an American high school, isn’t the casting of an actor with cerebral palsy as a surrogate for Shakespeare’s hunchback tyrant who hacks his way to the throne.
This problem is not evident in “Teenage Dick,” which stars Gregg Mozgala, an actor with cerebral palsy who’s also an advocate for expanding opportunities for performers like himself. He came up with the idea of recasting a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s play with an actor who understands the stigma of disability from the inside.Mozgala’s Richard is as charismatic as he is crafty and as vulnerable as he is malign.
As a satiric comedy, “Teenage Dick” can’t compete with “Election” or “Clueless,” two films from the 1990s that revealed our national character in teenage ruthlessness. The Shakespearean parallels Lew furnishes are clever enough, but recycling names and plot points goes only so far. The play’s originality lies in the way disability is treated sensitively but without sentimentality.
The play’s most touching encounter is between Richard and Anne Margaret , the class beauty who until recently had been dating Eddie. To elevate his public image, Richard manipulates Anne into asking him to the Sadie Hawkins dance. But their budding relationship surprises Richard, who is not accustomed to tenderness.
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