Punk Rock is the powerful new play by Lyric Artistic Associate Simon Stephens.

Drawing on his past experience as a teacher, Punk Rock sees Stephens present a group of educated, articulate, aspirational young people and reveal, step-by-step, the dislocation, disjunction and latent violence simmering under the surface of success.

In addition to Punk Rock, Stephens’s plays include Harper Regan, Pornography, Motortown and On The Shore Of The Wide World, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2006.

Punk Rock’s director Sarah Frankcom is the co-Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Her previous directorial credits include On The Shore Of The Wide World, Separate Tables, Kes and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

The cast includes Harry McEntire, who recently appeared in the hugely acclaimed musical Spring Awakening at both the Lyric Hammersmith and Novello theatre.

Punk Rock contains strong language and adult themes, and is suitable for theatregoers aged 14 and older.

For more about Punk Rock at the Lyric Hammersmith, read the First Night Feature or Introducing… Jessica Raine.