Punk Rock
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Description
'Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't...'
Based on his experience as a teacher, Stephens describes his play as 'The History Boys on crack'. It explores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. Contemporary and unnerving, with elements of The Catcher in the Rye, Punk Rock follows the story of seven sixth-formers as they face up to the pressures of teenage life, while preparing for their mock A-level exams and trying to get into Oxbridge. They are a group of educated, intelligent and aspirational young people but step-by-step, the dislocation, disjunction and latent violence simmering under the surface of prosperity is revealed.
Product details

Published | 30 Jan 2016 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 112 |
ISBN | 9781408126363 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Simon Stephens has created a stark, bracing and eventually brutal portrait of adolescent relationships in his new play Punk Rock'
Mark Shenton, Daily Express, 13.9.09
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'Stephens's play...confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.'
Michael Billington, Guardian, 9.9.09
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'Simon Stephens evokes the twilight world of the teenager with scary vividness'
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 9.9.09
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'Simon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play'
Michael Coveney, Independent, 10.9.09
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'Simon Stephens's cracking new play'
Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 10.9.09
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'This riveting new work confirms Simon Stephens as one of the most important and exciting British playwrights working today' : 'compassion, insight -- and theatrical panache' : 'The writer's perfectly calibrated setup leads auds to some of the biggest, most complex questions of our times'
Karen Fricker, Variety, 09.09.09