Donmar Warehouse, LondonMike Lew's American update of Shakespeare, directed by Michael Longhurst, captures the king's complexity Mike Lew's relocation of Richard III to a US high school is part of a growing trend of transpositions of Shakespeare to a teenage setting. The key point, however, is Lew's insistence that Richard and his female friend, Buck, be played by disabled actors: in this case Daniel Monks who has he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on December 13, 2019