With Advanced Placement exams right around the corner, many Niles North students are feeling the crunch. So are some seniors across the pond in a modern Stockport grammar school as they prepare for their “A-level” exams.

Punk Rock is the final production of the Niles North theatre department’s 2012-2013 season. The play follows a group of students who are in the “sixth-form” (the equivalent to our “senior year”) as they prepare to take some big exams and prepare to move on to college.

Punk Rock illustrates the twilight world of adolescence, complete with all those awkward feelings of angst, love, embarrassment and self-doubt that we all experience at some point throughout this bumpy journey to adulthood. The show has a great deal of adult content and language so viewer discretion is advised.  “It really lays out adolescence life in such an uncut way,” senior Emma Decker, who plays Cissy Franks, said. “It’s able to show all the angst that comes along with adolescence and where that all stems from.”

“[The show] lays out a great deal of questions out to start the discussion about youth and society in general,” Decker said. “It will hopefully have a huge impact on the audience, and start some hard discussions on things that are sometimes [difficult] to talk about.”

Punk Rock will be performed in the Black Box theater on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10.