' Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous Nothing lasts We certainly won't' Based on his experience as a teacher Stephens describes his play as ' The History Boys on crack' It explores the underlying tensions & potential violence in a group of affluent articulate seventeen year old students Contemporary & unnerving with elements of The Catcher in the Rye Punk Rock follows the story of seven sixth-formers as they face up to the pressures of teenage life while preparing for their mock A-level exams & trying to get into Oxbridge They are a group of educated intelligent & aspirational young people but step-by-step the dislocation disjunction & latent violence simmering under the surface of prosperity is revealed