punkplay - Southwark Playhouse
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
PHILIPPA Neels & Co. is presenting the UK premiere of punkplay at Southwark Playhouse. Written by Gregory S. Moss and directed by Tom Hughes, it runs from September 9 (previews from September 7) to October 1, 2016.
There’s Duck and there’s Mickey. They’re the kids of America and it’s the 80s apocalypse. They hate their parents and there’s no point in algebra. They’re grabbing at this thing called life: guitars, girls, love, fury, heartbreak and noise noise noise.
Punk is their escape from suburbia and it’s like nothing they have ever heard. It’s fast – it’s alive – it’s already dead.
punkplay is described as a riot of a play told at breakneck pace with a killer soundtrack. It’s a coming-of-age story about subcultures, friendship and not-fitting-in – all on rollerskates.
Playwright Gregory S. Moss is a writer, performer and educator from Newburyport, MA. His play, Indian Summers, is currently at Playwrights Horizon. Recent and upcoming productions include Reunion at South Coast Repertory (Best New Play of 2014, The OC Weekly), Billy Witch at Studio 42 and APAC (NY), House of Gold at La Comédie Française (Winner, Prix du Public) and at EST-LA (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics’ Pick) and sixsixsix at Antimatter Collective (NY) (Editor’s Pick, Flavorpill). For more information, visit www.gregorysmoss.com/Gregory_S_Moss.
Director Tom Hughes is currently working as staff director to Rufus Norris on The Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre. In 2013, he directed the sold-out Late in the Day at the Hen & Chickens Theatre. He has also worked as assistant director to Carrie Cracknell on A Doll’s House (Young Vic), Wils Wilson on I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre) and Nancy Meckler on Brontë (Shared Experience/Tricycle Theatre).
punkplay is designed by Cécile Tremolieres, with lighting design by Sarah Readman and sound by Benjamin Grant. Casting and further creative details are to be announced.
Tickets: Previews (September 7 and 8): all tickets £12. From September 9: £20, £16 concessions. To book, call the box office on 020 7407 0234 or visit www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/.
Times: Monday to Saturday at 8pm; Saturday matinees at 3.30pm.
The European premiere of Last of the Boys continues at Southwark Playhouse until June 4, 2016.