3 - 26 September 2009

‘One of the best plays of the year.’ ***** Sunday Express

'Riveting to watch and superbly acted... This play gets a new regime at the Lyric off to a cracking start.' **** Guardian

**** 'Superb... Punk Rock combines emotional truth and raw intensity to thrilling theatrical effect. The new regime at Hammersmith has got off to a tremendous start.' Daily Telegraph

**** ‘Powerful and compelling... [Tom] Sturridge makes an astonishingly assured stage debut.' Independent

**** 'Top marks for a cracking class of newcomers... Simon Stephens evokes the twilight world of the teenager with scary vividness.’ The Times

In the library of an English grammar school, a group of
sixth-formers are nearing the end of their school lives. But when the world opens up before them, there’s a danger it will swallow them whole.

A raw young cast expose the violence simmering under the surface of success in a blistering new play by Simon Stephens, Lyric Artistic Associate and writer of Pornography, Harper Regan, Motortown and the Olivier Award-winning On the Shore of the Wide World.

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Ages 14+
This show contains strong language and adult themes.