Roller Skating PUNKPLAY Gets UK Premiere at Southwark Playhouse

Gregory S. Moss's PUNKPLAY is a riot of a play told at breakneck pace with a killer soundtrack. It's a coming-of-age story about subcultures, friendship and not fitting in - all on roller skates. The play receives its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse this autumn (September 7 to October 1), directed by Tom Hughes.

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.

This production is part of Punk London - 40 years of subversive culture. Casting and further creative details are to be announced. For more information and to book tickets, call 020 7407 0234 or visit www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

Gregory S. Moss is a writer, performer and educator from Newburyport, MA. His play, Indian Summers, is currently at Playwrights Horizon. His other work has been seen at La Comédie Française, Clubbed Thumb, The Guthrie, Playwrights Horizons, PlayPenn, Soho Rep., Steppenwolf Garage, and New York Theatre Workshop. Gregory is a 2012 MacDowell Fellow, a Playwrights Center Core Member, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Jerome Fellowship and a 2011-2012 McKnight Fellowship. His work has been published by Play: A Journal of Plays, n+1 and Playscripts. He is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, and Clubbed Thumb. In collaboration with composer/lyricist Joe Iconis, he's creating a new musical based on the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse. Recent and upcoming productions include La Brea; Orange, Hat & Grace; I Promised Myself to Live Faster in collaboration with Pig Iron Theatre Co. at the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays at The Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Reunion at South Coast Repertory (Best New Play of 2014, The OC Weekly), Billy Witch at Studio 42 and APAC (NY), House of Gold at La Comédie Française (Winner, Prix du Public) and at EST-LA (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics' Pick) and sixsixsix at Antimatter Collective (NY) (Editor's Pick, Flavorpill).

Director Tom Hughes is currently working as staff director to Rufus Norris on The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre). He originally trained with Living Pictures and on the 2013 NT Studio Directors Course. In 2013, Tom directed the sold-out Late in the Day (Hen & Chickens Theatre). He has also worked as assistant director to Carrie Cracknell on A Doll's House (Young Vic), Wils Wilson on I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre) and Nancy Meckler on Brontë (Shared Experience/Tricycle). Tom is also co-Artistic Director of The Band Theatre Company - a collaborative ensemble who devise anarchic and noisy new plays for adventurous audiences - who have been supported by Camden People's Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen and Arts Council England to develop their first full show: The Ajax Project. Tom also holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick. At the age of 18, Tom spent much of 2002-2003 touring the UK and Europe with Austrian activist punk band J*A*N feat UDSSR.

Watch a trailer for the Hyde Park Theatre production of PUNKPLAY

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