Scripts

1831 Riot!

By Liz Crow & Ralph Hoyte
2004

Riot Act Script

[GENERAL SOUNDS OF HUBBUB (VOICES OF NON-RIOTERS) RIOT -1000+ PEOPLE IN QSQ; ABOUT 50 OF THOSE INVOLVED IN RIOTING]

Mayor Pinney I command you in His Majesty’s name to disperse, and to keep silence while I make proclamation to that effect.

[CROWD CONTINUES ROWDILY]

Alderman Keep silence for the proclamation.

[CROWD QUIETENS SLIGHTLY]

Mayor Pinney Silence!

[CROWD SOUNDS CONTINUE AS HE READ RIOT ACT]

Mayor Pinney Our Sovereign Lord the King charges and commands that all persons being assembled immediately do disperse themselves and peaceably do depart to their habitations or their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George I, for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies. God save the King.

[CROWD BECOMES NOISIER AS HE SPEAKS, THROWING STONES]

Alderman Gentlemen, if you do not disperse, then the troops will be called upon. The Riot Act has been read three times. All persons tumultuously assembling are guilty of capital felony…

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