{"product_id":"teenage-dick","title":"Teenage Dick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, \u003cem\u003eTeenage Dick\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his discontent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicked 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMike Lew's play \u003cem\u003eTeenage Dick\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32136587608147,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781848428720_67565214-3848-46f8-982d-c8c36b29ac08.jpg?v=1777083357","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/teenage-dick","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}