Not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, Teenage Riot follows seven, or maybe eight – who knows – teenagers as they whine about how the world doesn’t understand them, burn pictures of their family and throw tomatoes at projected images of the audience. It’s a bit like an episode of Skins with Flemish accents but without a plot.
The staging is unusual: most of the action takes place in a shed on stage, relayed to the audience by a live video projected onto the downstage wall of aforementioned shed. Quite why isn’t made clear – it does allow for some nice effects, but for the most part is just quite annoying and contrived. At the end of the show the audience is invited to tour the shed – you can give this is miss too, since the most interesting thing about it is that someone’s spent a long time writing WANK over and over on one wall.
Waste of time.
1 star
This is 100% true, the show was possibly the worst production ever made and insulted me and other young people of my age. The acting was rubbish and nothing speacil as apperently slapping yourself around the face whilst calling yourself a ‘Spactic’ is meant to be entertaining or meaningful. This productions intentions was to attack the adults, but as they risked doing this, they failed to realise that they were stabbing teenagers in the back. We as teenagers do not be wished to be classed as miserable moaning self harming sex obsessed thick senseless beings. Not only did the adults walk out but I even watched my mate walk and I was seriously considering to. The only reason I didn’t leave was to find out how they would end this piece…which didn’t make any sense or changed the way I felt about the piece. Where these teenagers trying to potray me? other teenagers? Sure we have the classic sterotypical skins type teenager once in a while, but this production took this and defiently went OTT. If this production was produced or created by Teenagers and not created my an adults perpective, then it would have been convincing. Talking to the actors after, they were all convinced or brainwashed by the director that all teenagers had these problems and wanted the audience to think about solving un solvable issues. But as I said to them, your not making anyone think, they were making a statement and view that we as teenagers have everything to blame on oarents, that all we do is moan and crave attention and that we don’t care about anything apart from ourselves as the audience watched them wear plastic bags over their heads and burn pictures of family or friends…and apperently teenagers have an issues, but really this production has. This is a show not to remember and not to go and see. I have felt truely betrayed by my own age group. Miss this