PUNK ROCK by Simon Stephens, directed by Trip Cullman, will open MCC Theater 2014-2015 season. This will be the plays American debut after premiering in England in 2009 with a cast led by Tom Sturridge (who recently made his Broadway debut in a revival of "Orphans" last spring).
Stephens is known recently for his Olivier winning adaptation of The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time which will debut on Broadway in the fall and his play Harper Reagan which was produced at Atlantic Theater Company last season.
I wonder if Sturridge might reprise his role. I'm not the hugest fan of Simon Stephens, but that would interest me very much.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body