Riot

Carnage on streets of Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 05/04/2016 - 11:33am

The fine city of Exeter has never witnessed such devastating scenes of destruction and chaos. So it will come as great comfort to citizens to learn that it is on an incredibly small scale - 1:87 to be precise - and safely contained within a 40ft shipping container, as part of a surreal model village experience visiting the city.

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) is a post-riot landscape created in miniature by acclaimed artist Jimmy Cauty - co-creator of chart-topping band The KLF and its subsequent, million pound-burning arts incarnation The K Foundation.

Following...

China: Riot in Sichuan Luzhou after traffic police kill driver

Thousands of people have reportedly taken to the streets in Sichuan Luzhou, China, in protest against an alleged killing by traffic police, late on Wednesday night.

According to reports on China's micro-blogging site, Weibo, the disturbance started at the HongXing village farmer’s market. A truck allegedly caused some serious traffic jam at the market, 3 traffic police came and seemingly started a quarrel with the truck driver. Somehow the quarrel escalated and the driver was said to be beaten to death by the three traffic police.

Police cars have been...

'Riot' in Brooklyn neighbourhood as residents protest cop killing of 16-year-old

Authored by JAMIII
Posted: Tue, 03/12/2013 - 8:01am

Police and protesters clashed in East Flatbush, in Brooklyn, on Monday night as residents held a candlelit vigil for a sixteen-year-old shot dead by police on Saturday.

Kimani Gray was shot 11 times after allegedly pointing a gun at officers. However, witnesses to the incident claim that Gray was not armed, and was 'running for his life' when his was fatally shot.

According to reports the police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in the neighborhood without warrants, looking for children who had been seen throwing bottles at police from neighborhood...

RIOT: an epic tale of violence, greed and cheap sofas

Event Date: 
11/12/2012 - 7:30pm to 15/12/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Fore Street, Exeter

10 February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British public punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store.

Riot is a true story set in a lamp-lit flat-pack universe bursting with violence, chaos and more characters than you can throw a meatball at. Hammered together with physical theatre and music, The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a comedic tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind.

Riot was devised over several...