'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

'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

'Simon Stephens evokes the twilight world of the teenager with scary vividness'

Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 9.9.09

'Simon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play'

Michael Coveney, Independent, 10.9.09

'Simon Stephens's cracking new play'

Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 10.9.09

'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