“I wanted to know why people that I had never met were rioting in places that I had never been to…” 3 performers use text, torchlight and crowd psychology to unpick the presumed causes of civil unrest. How to Start a Riot is our first show, we spent a year researching source material on crowd psychology and developing the work through writing workshops. On the project, we worked closely with Prof. Clifford Stott, whose advice and input was invaluable as we developed our ideas from the initial scratch performances to the full hour-long show.