Howard Miller takes a look at Teenage Dick:
Is it better to be loved or feared? This question posed by an in-over-her-head high school English teacher (Marinda Anderson) is intended to engage her class with Machiavelli's 16th century political treatise "The Prince." But only one of her students, a quirky but bright young man named Richard (Gregg Mozgala), shows any real interest. Indeed, parsing that particular problem becomes the driving force in Richard's life during the course of Mike Lew's comic-tragic pretzel twist of a play, Teenage Dick, which is being given a first-rate production at the Public's Shiva Theatre under the masterful direction of Moritz von Stuelpnagel. . . . |
