Michael Longhurst began his tenure as artistic director of the Donmar this summer with a revival of David Greig’s Europe, a play written in the wake of Communism’s collapse that conveyed a still-resonant sense of dispossession and disempowerment amid a limbo euro landscape. His end of year offering is equally slick and is far more radiantly entertaining, but at heart it’s no less serious-minded – preoccupied too, in its way, with belonging and identity.
With Teenage Dick, Chinese-American playwright Mike Lew cleverly transplants Richard III to an American high-school setting to create a piece that moves from a propulsive comedy of self-advancement to a tragic climax, as per the original. It plainly…
