Punk Rock

Posted on May 1, 2012

pantsguys Productions and atyp Under The Wharf present

Punk Rock

by Simon Stephens
directed by Anthony Skuse

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~ 2012 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD WINNER ~

Best Independent Production 2012

Best Director of an Independent Production: Anthony Skuse

Best Supporting Actor in an Independent Production: Graeme Mcrae

There’s a riot in the common room.

Step inside the perennial structures of an upper class British high school and follow 7 teens as they tangle with the adolescent pressures of love, sex, bullying and dreams of ‘Oxbridge’. They are the smartest, the richest and the best; the cream of the crop turning sour.

“This is the History Boys on crack” – Simon Stephens

Punk Rock is a sharp and contemporary look at the underlying tensions of the young, weathly and aspirational. This is a world of Lily Allen haircuts, Kanye West jackets and a simering potential for violence. When the whole world opens before you, there’s a danger it’ll swallow you up.

Directed by Anthony Skuse and produced by pantsguys Productions, who brought you The Shape of Things Under the Wharf in 2011, this is a dangerous and tautly drawn Australian premiere of Simon Stephens’ urgent and shattering new play.

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Under the Wharf is an initiative of the Australia Theatre for Young People (atyp)

For further information please contact Rebecca Martin on 0410 763 492 or info@pantsguys.com