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.

Meet The Skater Punks From Punk Play

punkplay at Southwark Playhouse

We are pleased to bring you some great images from the rehearsal room of punkplay which starts previewing at Southwark Playhouse this week ahead of its opening night on the 9th September 2016. Gregory S. Moss’s punkplay is a riot of a play told at break-neck 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. Photos by Mathew Foster BOOK NOW FOR PUNKPLAY