Riot Night

RSH Theatre Company and Livelyhood presents, Riot Night from 12th -15th November. Written by critically acclaimed playwright Hugh Janes and directed by award winning director Robert Young, this interactive play will force the audience out of their comfort zones as actors take them physically through a series of chaotic events.

Starring Lizzie Stables (Inbetweeners, 2011), Riot Night tells a story based on real life events, of a pub in Clapham; its manager, its regulars and their collective night of terror as South West London descended into anarchy on the third night of the London riots. Set in the Royal Oak Pub, Riot Night explores the people and events that took place on the significant night of Monday 8th August 2011. Having only just been made aware of the uncontrollable disorder that had broken out in Tottenham, the police were telling the pub manager and his regulars that the riots were coming that way and that there was nothing they could do. While some fled, others stayed to protect their local pub.