REVIEW: Punkplay, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Punkplay at Southwark Playhouse

Gregory S. Moss is an ingenious playwright who has created a sequence of tableaux, each of which can be understood as a ‘cover’ of a different musical ‘track’ on a personalised cassette tape, of the kind typically compiled for each other by friends in the long-lost 1980s. The scenes are, in fact, ‘riffs’ on actual recordings, and the anoraks amongst us (Hand up! – Guilty!) will have huge fun in tracing their origins, analysing the author’s creation as if it were the product of some Walmart T S Eliot.

PunkPlay Comes To Southwark Playhouse

PunkPlay at Southwark Playhouse

Gregory S Moss’s Punkplay is set to make its UK premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse in September 2016. The play is a riot of a play told at a breakneck pace with a killer soundtrack, a coming-of-age story about subcultures, friendship, and not-fitting-in – all on rollerskates! 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. Casting for PunkPlay includes Matthew Castle, Aysha Kala, Sam Perry and Jack Sunderland. Playwright Gregory S. Moss said: “I hope London theatregoers respond the same as an American audience. It’s a play that works on a bunch of levels. … Read more