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PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings

Posted by: NeoAdamite 10:52 am EST 11/17/14
The cast of Simon Stephens' PUNK ROCK, presented by MCC at the Lortel, has an exceptionally strong cast of young players, people you're going to be seeing a lot of in years to come. It's tightly written and has some sparks of real life in it.

The warnings [NO SPOILERS]:

The scene-change music is VERY LOUD. I expected that, to some extent, and even warned my companion in advance; but this was beyond my imagining, really concert-level volume.

There are large helpings of brutality and humiliation shared amongst these seventeen-year-olds. They're not huge exaggerations of reality, at least in my experience, but some are very hard to watch. (Nobody gets raped.)

[POSSIBLE SPOILER, FROM THE MCC WEBSITE]

"Punk Rock is inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, which Stephens believes 'left its scar over the beginning of the 21st century.'"


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